WALS Poll Conlang/Morphology

General facts

Both head-marking and dependent-marking occur.

Both concatenative and non-concatenative processes occur.

Suffixes are more common than prefixes.

Full and partial reduplication are productive.

Verbs

Verbs are marked for 8 grammatical categories.

These include TAM, polarity, and agreement with the patient. They are also marked for person and number of the subject. All subject person/number markers are distinct.

TAM markers also indicate polarity.

Nouns

There are three genders. These are not sex-based. Nouns are assigned gender on both semantic and formal grounds.

All nouns may be marked for number, but it is optional for inanimates. Number is marked by a mixture of morphological strategies.

Nouns are marked for case and referentiality. These share a single marker. There is syncretism in both core and non-core cases.

Possession is head-marked.