Atakapa

WALS coordinates: 30° N, 93° 30′ W

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives	Exclusively concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives	No case
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb	8-9 categories per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause	Head marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases	No marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology	Inconsistent or other
Nominal Categories
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions	No person marking
Numeral Classifiers	Absent
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	OV and Postpositions
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Split
Verbal Person Marking	Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	Zero in all 3sg forms
Order of Person Markers on the Verb	P precedes A
Passive Constructions	Absent
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Different
Finger and Hand	Identical
M-T Pronouns	No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns	No N-M pronouns