Erromangan

WALS coordinates: 18° 49′ 48.00″ S, 169° 10′ 12.00″ E

spoken in Vanuatu

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Sie
Routledge:
  • Sie
Other:
  • Sye,
  • Erromanga
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Reduplication Full reduplication only
Nominal Categories
Number of Genders None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment No gender
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem
Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related to non-remote demonstratives
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based
Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only
Distributive Numerals Marked by suffix
Numeral Classifiers Absent
Nominal Syntax
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
Verbal Categories
The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
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 Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
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 Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
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
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction
Passive Constructions Absent
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit
Purpose Clauses Deranked
'When' Clauses Balanced
Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced