Biri

WALS coordinates: 20° 30′ S, 146° 30′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	No plural
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality	No nominal plural
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	No possessive affixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative	Second person number-neutral
The Prohibitive	Normal imperative + normal negative
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SVO
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	VO and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'	Indirect-object construction
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Polar Questions	Interrogative intonation only