Livagian:
> 1. morphological type
> a. agglutinative
> b. fusional/inflecting
> c. polysynthetic
> d. isolating
d > c > b (in order of significance)
> 2. Word order
> a. SOV
> b. SVO
> c. VSO
> d. VOS
> e. OVS
> f. OSV
> g. free
a-f: word order is fixed, but all orders are possible.
> 3. adposition/noun order
> a. noun - preposition
> b. preposition - noun
no adpositions
> 4. adjective/noun order
> a. adj - noun
> b. noun - adj
no adjectives
> 5. genitive/noun order
> a. genitive - noun
> b. noun - genitive
both
> 6. relative clause/noun order
> a. rel. clause - noun
> b. noun - rel. clause
There are only free relatives, but they follow pattern b.
> 7. main verb/aux verb order
> a. main verb - aux verb
> b. aux verb - main verb
no auxiliaries, but taking the closest analogue, both are
possible, with b the more usual
> 8. adverb/verb order
> a. adv - verb
> b. verb - adv
no adverbs, but taking the closest analogue, both are
possible, with (a) the more usual.
> 9. compounding type
> a. head-last compounding
> b. head-first compounding
both, with (b) the default but (a) used when the compound is
part of a paradigm ('X-fish', 'X-tree' etc.).
> 10. case type
> a. nominative/accusative
> b. ergative/absolutive
> c. split ergative
> d. other
d.
> 11. tense system
> a. time (past/present/future)
> b. aspect
> c. realis/irrealis
not marked inflectionally or obligatorily
> 12. script
> a. latin
> b. other existing natlang script
> c. con-script
(a) & (c) [used separately]
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
none
> 14. number of cases
Anything from 0 to 9, depending on the analysis. 4, in my
usual analysis.
> 15. number of phonemes
In the standard analysis, 36.
> 16. lexicon size
Very hard to count, because of the polysynthesis and productivity.
Probably about 10,000, but covering only a small area of semantic
space.
--And.