1. Family: East Bougainville
  2. Genus: East Bougainville

Motuna

WALS coordinates: 6° 37′ S, 155° 25′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Siwai
Routledge:
  • Siwai
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives Exclusively concatenative
    Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking
    Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Dependent marking
    Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
    Possessive Classification Two classes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Lexicon
    M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
    N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns