1. Family: Trans-New Guinea
  2. Genus: Madang

Waskia

WALS coordinates: 4° 30′ S, 146° E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking
      Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking
      Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns and nouns
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
      Possessive Classification Two classes
      Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      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 Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      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 OV and Postpositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
      Verbal Person Marking Only the A argument
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Predicative Possession Conjunctional
      Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
      Nominal and Locational Predication Different
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
      Lexicon
      Numeral Bases Restricted
      M-T Pronouns M-T pronouns, non-paradigmatic
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns