Sinaugoro

WALS coordinates: 9° 50′ S, 147° 50′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly prefixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural clitic
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns	No politeness distinction
Position of Case Affixes	Postpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect prefixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Adjective-Degree word
Position of Polar Question Particles	Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Mixed
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 Adjective and Noun	OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'	Secondary-object construction
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Polar Questions	Question particle
Predicative Adjectives	Nonverbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication	Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Possible
Complex Sentences
Purpose Clauses	Balanced/deranked
'When' Clauses	Balanced
Reason Clauses	Balanced