• usual word classes + positionals (⊂ verboids)
• morphology:
  • compounding, derivational and inflectional morphology in nouns, adjectives and verbs
  • exclusively suffixing, mildly synthetic, mostly agglutinative
• syntactic relations:
  • dependent marking; no indexing for dependents
  • alignment of the actants of intransitive and transitive verbs:
    • ergative in terms of case marking
    • accusative for most phoric control
  • alignment of the actants of a ditransitive verb: indirective
• word order:
  • determiner precedes nominal
  • inner complement: bare NP which directly precedes its head [K]_X; X ϵ verb(oid), relational noun, relational adjective, postposition
    • → left-branching constituent order
  • free constituent order outside the inner-complement construction

Inner complement construction

	N	K
[	NP	X	]XP
	inner complement	head