Walman

WALS coordinates: 3° 13′ 12.00″ S, 142° 30′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly prefixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	No possessive affixes
Nominal Syntax
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction	Identity
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	No tense-aspect inflection
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SVO
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb	VOX
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	No dominant order
Order of Genitive and Noun	No dominant order
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	Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Adjective-Degree word
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	VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects	Subject is expressed overtly