1. Family: Australian
  2. Genus: Pama-Nyungan

Gumbaynggir

WALS coordinates: 30° 10′ S, 152° 30′ E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Gumbayunggir
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Gumbainggir,
    • Gumbainggar
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
    Nominal Syntax
    Adjectives without Nouns Without marking
    Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' different from 'with'
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
    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 Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
    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 Other
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Optional pronouns in subject position
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction
    Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
    Predicative Possession Genitive
    Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Different
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
    Comparative Constructions Conjoined
    Complex Sentences
    Purpose Clauses Deranked
    'When' Clauses Balanced
    Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different