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KML
Family:
Sino-Tibetan
Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
Genus:
Burmese-Lolo
Lisu
WALS coordinates: 26° N, 98° E
spoken in
China
,
Myanmar
Alternative Names
Ethnologue:
Lisu
Ruhlen:
Lisu
Routledge:
Other:
ISO 639-3:
lis
Features
Feature
Value
References
Nominal Categories
Position of Case Affixes
No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Nominal Syntax
Noun Phrase Conjunction
'And' identical to 'with'
Word Order
Order of Subject and Verb
SV
Order of Object and Verb
OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun
Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun
No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun
Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun
Relative clause-Noun
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
OV and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
OV and RelN
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
Other
Simple Clauses
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
Indirect-object construction
Polar Questions
Interrogative verb morphology
Predicative Possession
Topic
Predicative Adjectives
Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication
Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
Impossible
Lexicon
Tea
Others