Greenlandic Grammar

GPTKB entity

Statements (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:syntax
gptkbp:feature Agglutinative morphology
No articles
No grammatical gender
Imperative mood
Indicative mood
Optative mood
Ablative case for movement from
Allative case for movement to
Case marking on nouns
Complex compounding of morphemes
Complex verb morphology
Conditional mood
Conjunctive mood
Demonstrative pronouns
Direct and indirect objects marked by case
Dual and plural number
Equative case for comparison
Ergative-absolutive alignment
Extensive use of suffixes
Instrumental case for means or instrument
Interrogative pronouns
Locative case for location
Mood marking on verbs
Negative verb forms
No copula in present tense
No definite or indefinite articles
No infinitive form
No prepositions, uses postpositions
No verb 'to have'
Nominal derivation through suffixes
Noun incorporation
Number marking on verbs and nouns
Obligative mood
Participles used for subordination
Person marking on verbs
Personal pronouns
Polysynthetic structure
Possessive suffixes
Relative clauses formed with participles
Six grammatical cases
Temporal adverbials formed with suffixes
Use of enclitics
Use of postbases
Verb agreement with subject and object
Verb-final word order
Verbal derivation through suffixes
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Greenlandic Grammar
gptkbp:supportsLanguage Greenlandic
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Paul_Egede
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8