1. Family: Australian
  2. Subfamily: Gunwinyguan
  3. Genus: Ngalakan

Ngalakan

WALS coordinates: 14° 15′ S, 134° E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ngalakan
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Ngalakgan
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
    Rhythm Types Trochaic
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, optional
    Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
    Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person singular only
    Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Mixed
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' different from 'with'
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent
    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 adpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order
    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 Split
    Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
    Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3sg forms
    Order of Person Markers on the Verb Both orders of A and P occur
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction
    Passive Constructions Absent
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Predicative Possession Conjunctional
    Predicative Adjectives Mixed
    Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
    Complex Sentences
    'Want' Complement Subjects Desiderative verbal affix
    Lexicon
    M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
    N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns