Gaagudju
WALS coordinates: 12° 35′ S, 132° 50′ E
spoken in Australia
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Morphology | ||
| Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Equal prefixing and suffixing | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Occurrence of Nominal Plurality | Only human nouns, obligatory | |
| Indefinite Pronouns | Interrogative-based | |
| Position of Case Affixes | No case affixes or adpositional clitics | |
| Numeral Classifiers | Absent | |
| Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers | Formally different | |
| Nominal Syntax | ||
| Adjectives without Nouns | Without marking | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Postpositions | |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | |
| Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative-Noun | |
| Order of Numeral and Noun | No dominant order | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Expression of Pronominal Subjects | Subject affixes on verb | |
| Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Secondary-object construction | |
| Negative Morphemes | Negative particle | |
