The Beja treebank contains 684 words if we count both stems and clitics; 39% of words are clitics. The
treebank contains 244 affixes for 418 stems, or a proportion of 58%. 59% of them are suffixes and 41%
prefixes. 88% of the affixes are on verbs, 7% on nouns, and 5% on auxiliaries. All affixes on nouns are
suffixes. Not all inflectional morphemes are affixes: 44% of the stems are in fact inflected forms,
containing an inseparable inflectional morpheme, which increases the proportion of inflectional
morphemes to 102% (102 inflectional morphemes for 100 stems).
Beja is a head-final language: only 11% of the dependencies between two stems have the governor
before the dependent in the SUD version of the treebank. Among the 31 dependencies concerned, 11
are for modifiers, 6 for discourse markers, 4 for dislocated objects, 2 for objects in canonical position,
and 2 for determiners. Clitics occur on both sides: 47% are proclitics and 53% are enclitics. Clitics are
mainly on verbs (56%) and nouns (38%). Clitics on nouns are determiners (70%), possessives (15%),
postpositions (11%), and coordinating conjunctions (3%). Clitics on verbs are subordinating
conjunctions (35%), object pronouns (25%), coordinating conjunctions (14%), an optative particle (2%),
and, on nominalized forms, determiners (15%) and copulas (8%).
Beja adpositions are postpositions, either as independent words (Figure 10) or as enclitics
(Figure 11)
enclitics
independant words :