Bilua

WALS coordinates: 7° 45′ S, 156° 40′ 12.00″ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural word
Definite Articles	Demonstrative word used as definite article
Indefinite Articles	Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb	No dominant order
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
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	Mixed
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles	No question particle
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Mixed
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	VO and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Other
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 clitics on variable host
Polar Questions	Interrogative intonation only