1. Family: Australian
  2. Subfamily: Daly
  3. Genus: Southern Daly

Ngankikurungkurr

WALS coordinates: 14° S, 130° 30′ E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ngenkikurrunggur
Routledge:
  • Ngenkikurrunggur
Other:
  • Ngenkikurunggkur
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person singular only
Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
Nominal Syntax
Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Adjoined
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
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
Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible