1. Family: Australian
  2. Genus: Pama-Nyungan

Wembawemba

WALS coordinates: 35° 20′ S, 144° E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Wemba Wemba
Routledge:
  • Wemba Wemba
Other:
  • Wemba Wemba
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives Exclusively concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives Monoexponential case
Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Double marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Double-marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Numeral Classifiers Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
Nominal Syntax
Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
Possessive Classification Two classes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb VOS
Order of Subject and Verb VS
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 Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions 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 Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Different
Finger and Hand Different
M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns