Sherpa language

Phonology

• Nouns are defined by morphology when a bare noun occurs in the genitive and this extends to the noun phrase. Defined by syntactic co-occurrence with the locative clitic, comes first in the noun phrase after demonstratives.
• Demonstratives are defined syntactically by first position in the NP directly before the noun.
• Quantifiers: Number words occur last in the noun phrase with the exception of the definite article.
• Adjectives occur after the noun in the NP and morphologically only take genitive marking when in construct with a noun.
• Verbs may morphologically be distinguished by differing or suppletive roots for the perfective, imperfective, and imperative. They occur last in a clause before the verbal auxiliaries.
• Verbal Auxiliaries occur last in a clause.
• Postpositions occur last in a postpositional NP.
• Sherpa is a tone language