Ngalakgan language

Baker (1999, 2008) analyses the language as having both geminate and singleton realizations of every plosive consonant.There is free word order, with no syntactically governed positions for subject, object, verb etc.All this information is encoded in the morphology, which results in highly complex word structures.Compounding is a productive process in Ngalakan which applies to all major lexical categories: noun+adjective, noun+verb adverb+verb.Suffixation for argument (ergative, genitive, dative), local semantic roles (locative, allative, ablative, perlative) and number occurs.
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