Mono-Alu

WALS coordinates: 7° 3′ S, 155° 45′ E

spoken in Solomon Islands

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Mono
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Mono Alu
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
    Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    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 Adposition and Noun Phrase No dominant order
    Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun No dominant order
    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 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
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
    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
    Passive Constructions Absent