Anêm

WALS coordinates: 5° 34′ 48.00″ S, 149° 4′ 48.00″ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Locus of Marking in the Clause	Head marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases	Head marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology	Head-marking
Nominal Categories
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	3rd person singular only
Person Marking on Adpositions	Pronouns only
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive suffixes
Nominal Syntax
Obligatory Possessive Inflection	Absent
Possessive Classification	More than five classes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SVO
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	No dominant order
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Accusative
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb
Verbal Person Marking	Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	No zero realization
Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A precedes P
Passive Constructions	Absent
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Lexicon
M-T Pronouns	No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns	No N-M pronouns