1. Family: Algic
  2. Genus: Algonquian

Blackfoot

WALS coordinates: 50° N, 112° 40′ 12.00″ W

spoken in Canada, United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Blackfoot
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Blackfeet,
    • Pikanii
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory
    Definite Articles Definite affix
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite affix
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
    Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' different from 'with'
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase No adpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Mixed
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject clitics on variable host
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
    Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Different
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
    Complex Sentences
    'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Identical
    Finger and Hand Different