Kadazan
WALS coordinates: 5° 55′ 12.00″ N, 117° 10′ 12.00″ E
spoken in Malaysia
Alternative Names
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| Ruhlen: | |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Position of Case Affixes | No case affixes or adpositional clitics | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Subject, Object and Verb | VSO | |
| Order of Subject and Verb | VS | |
| 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 | Mixed | |
| Order of Numeral and Noun | Numeral-Noun | |
| Position of Polar Question Particles | Second position | |
| Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions | Initial interrogative phrase | |
| 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 Adjective and Noun | VO and NAdj | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions | Morphological but no compound | |
| Negative Morphemes | Negative particle | |
| Polar Questions | Question particle | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Identical | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
