Gooniyandi

Bunuban family · Australia

WALS records no dominant basic order of subject, object and verb for Gooniyandi, a group that holds 189 of the 1,376 languages it codes for this feature.

On Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase, WALS codes Gooniyandi as “Inpositions”, a value held by 8 of the 1,184 languages coded, Tümpisa Shoshone among them.

On Position of Case Affixes, WALS codes Gooniyandi as “Inpositional clitics”, a value held by 7 of the 1,031 languages coded.

The closest grammar profile to Gooniyandi in the atlas belongs to Garrwa, a Garrwan language: the two agree on 28 of the 40 features both have coded.

The order Gooniyandi uses in 7 pairings of a head word and its dependent. Bars: how all languages coded for each pairing split, before or after.

Contrast Gooniyandi with Garrwa or with any other language

Uncommon values

Values that fewer than one in ten of the coded languages share with Gooniyandi, rarest first.

Coding of EvidentialityModal morpheme7 of 418
Nominal and Verbal ConjunctionBoth expressed by juxtaposition15 of 301
Order of Person Markers on the VerbA and P are fused20 of 379
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress SystemsLong vowel + Coda: long vowels or closed syllables35 of 500
Nonperiphrastic Causative ConstructionsNo morphological type or compound type23 of 310
Productivity of the Antipassive Constructionpartially productive14 of 186
Coding of Nominal PluralityPlural clitic81 of 1,066
Order of Genitive and NounBoth orders occur with neither order dominant96 of 1,249

Closest profiles

Languages that share the most coded values with Gooniyandi; the count is out of the features both languages are coded for.

Martuthunira Pama-Nyungan71 of 114
Tonkawa family of its own38 of 58
Mangarrayi Mangarrayi-Maran66 of 108
Ngiyambaa Pama-Nyungan66 of 109

The rest of the profile

WALS codes Gooniyandi for 119 of the 144 profile features used on this site. The remaining 108 are listed here, grouped by topic; within each group the value Gooniyandi shares with the fewest languages comes first.

Sounds 18

Feature	Value	Languages sharing it
Absence of Common Consonants	No fricatives	48 of 567
Vowel Quality Inventories	Small vowel inventory (2-4)	93 of 564
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Moderately high	102 of 564
Fixed Stress Locations	Initial: stress is on the first syllable	92 of 502
The Velar Nasal	Velar nasal, also initially	147 of 469
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing contrast	182 of 567
Consonant Inventories	Average	201 of 563
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other	242 of 567
Rhythm Types	Trochaic: left-hand syllable in the foot is strong	153 of 323
Weight-Sensitive Stress	Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)	281 of 500
Syllable Structure	Moderately complex syllable structure	274 of 486
Tone	No tones	307 of 527
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals	388 of 567
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants	409 of 567
Vowel Nasalization	Contrastive nasal vowels absent	180 of 244
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None	449 of 567
Uvular Consonants	No uvulars	470 of 567
Front Rounded Vowels	None	525 of 562

Word structure 12

Feature	Value	Languages sharing it
Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives	Isolating/concatenative	13 of 165
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Moderate preference for prefixing	94 of 969
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb	6-7 categories per word	31 of 145
Locus of Marking in the Clause	P is double-marked	58 of 236
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking	Subject person/number marking is never syncretic	81 of 198
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases	Possessor is dependent-marked	98 of 236
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives	Monoexponential case	71 of 162
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology	Inconsistent marking or other type	121 of 236
Case Syncretism	Inflectional case marking is absent or minimal	123 of 198
Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication	278 of 368
Exponence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Inflection	monoexponential TAM	127 of 160
Zero Marking of A and P Arguments	Non-zero marking	219 of 235

Nouns and pronouns 23

Feature	Value	Languages sharing it
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns	Person-number stem with a nominal plural affix	22 of 261
Number of Cases	10 or more case categories	24 of 261
Ordinal Numerals	Zero: Ordinal numerals do not exist	33 of 321
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection	Inclusive and exclusive differentiated	30 of 200
Asymmetrical Case-Marking	Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical case-marking	53 of 261
Distributive Numerals	No distributive numerals	62 of 251
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers	Formally similar, not involving interrogative expression	33 of 116
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns	Inclusive and exclusive differentiated	63 of 200
Definite Articles	Definite word distinct from demonstrative	216 of 620
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive suffixes	355 of 902
The Associative Plural	Associative plural marker also used for additive plurals	104 of 236
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives	Unrelated	100 of 225
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives	Two-way contrast	126 of 234
Person Marking on Adpositions	Adpositions without person marking	209 of 378
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns	Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns are formally identical	94 of 168
Number of Genders	None	145 of 257
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	No gender system	145 of 257
Systems of Gender Assignment	No gender system	145 of 257
Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based indefinites	194 of 326
Numeral Classifiers	Numeral classifiers are absent	260 of 400
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns	Second person pronouns encode no politeness distinction	136 of 207
Comitatives and Instrumentals	Differentiation	213 of 322
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions	254 of 378

Noun phrases 6

Feature	Value	Languages sharing it
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses	Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed	33 of 138
Action Nominal Constructions	No action nominals	42 of 168
Possessive Classification	Two classes	94 of 243
Adjectives without Nouns	Adjective may occur without noun, and without marking	73 of 124
Obligatory Possessive Inflection	No obligatorily possessed nouns	201 of 244
Number of Possessive Nouns	None reported	233 of 243

Verbs: tense, mood, evidence 14

Feature	Value	Languages sharing it
The Prohibitive	Special imperative + normal negative	55 of 496
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect prefixes	153 of 1,131
The Morphological Imperative	No second-person imperatives	122 of 548
Epistemic Possibility	Affixes on verbs	84 of 240
Imperative-Hortative Systems	The language has a maximal system, but not a minimal one	133 of 375
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	Only indirect evidentials	166 of 418
The Past Tense	Past/non-past distinction marked; no remoteness distinction	94 of 222
The Future Tense	Inflectional marking of future/non-future distinction	110 of 222
The Perfect	No perfect	114 of 222
Perfective/Imperfective Aspect	No grammatical marking of perfective/imperfective distinction	121 of 222
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect	No suppletion in tense or aspect	123 of 193
Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives	None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material)	153 of 193
Verbal Number and Suppletion	No singular-(dual)-plural pairs/triples	159 of 193
The Optative	Inflectional optative absent	271 of 319

Word order 6

Feature	Value	Languages sharing it
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb	More than one order with none dominant	167 of 500
Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral precedes noun (NumN)	479 of 1,154
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative word precedes noun (DemN)	542 of 1,225
Order of Object and Verb	Object precedes verb (OV)	712 of 1,518
Order of Adjective and Noun	Modifying adjective follows noun (NAdj)	879 of 1,367
Order of Subject and Verb	Subject precedes verb (SV)	1,192 of 1,496

Simple clauses 17

Feature	Value	Languages sharing it
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns	Ergative - absolutive	20 of 172
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	Zero realization of all third person singular S forms	45 of 380
Antipassive Constructions	Oblique patient	30 of 194
Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases	Ergative - absolutive	32 of 190
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'	Secondary-object construction	65 of 378
Reciprocal Constructions	Identical to reflexive	44 of 175
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Symmetric standard negation only: Type Sym	114 of 297
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	Non-assignable (no asymmetry found)	114 of 297
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle	502 of 1,157
Verbal Person Marking	Person marking of both the A and P arguments	193 of 378
Applicative Constructions	No applicative construction	100 of 183
Other Roles of Applied Objects	No applicative construction	100 of 183
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Accusative alignment	212 of 380
Passive Constructions	There is no passive construction	211 of 373
Periphrastic Causative Constructions	Purposive type but no sequential type	68 of 118
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Pronominal subjects are expressed by affixes on verbs	437 of 711
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation	Negative indefinites co-occur with predicate negation	170 of 206

Complex sentences 6

Feature	Value	Languages sharing it
Relativization on Obliques	Non-Reduction Strategy	14 of 112
Relativization on Subjects	Non-reduction	24 of 166
Purpose Clauses	Balanced/deranked	30 of 170
'When' Clauses	Balanced/deranked	39 of 174
Reason Clauses	Deranked	42 of 169
Utterance Complement Clauses	Balanced	114 of 143

Vocabulary 6

Feature	Value	Languages sharing it
Numeral Bases	Restricted	20 of 196
Hand and Arm	Different	389 of 617
M in Second Person Singular	No m in second person singular	152 of 230
M in First Person Singular	No m in first person singular	177 of 230
N-M Pronouns	No N-M pronouns	194 of 230
M-T Pronouns	No M-T pronouns	200 of 230