Watjarri

WALS coordinates: 26° S, 117° 30′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing
Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Number of Genders	None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment	No gender
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns	Person-number stem
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives	Three-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives	Identical
Position of Case Affixes	Postpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive suffixes
Nominal Syntax
Adjectives without Nouns	Without marking
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative	Second person number-neutral
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	No grammatical evidentials
Coding of Evidentiality	No grammatical evidentials
Word Order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun	No dominant order
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Degree word-Adjective
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject clitics on variable host
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions	Morphological but no compound
Negative Morphemes	Variation between negative word and affix
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Different