Sardinian

WALS coordinates: 40° N, 9° E

spoken in Italy

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Sardinian
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Sardinian (Campidanese)
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Ordinal Numerals One-th, two-th, three-th
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
    Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Polar Questions Question particle