1. Family: Chumash
  2. Genus: Chumash

Chumash (Barbareño)

WALS coordinates: 34° 30′ N, 120° 15′ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Chumash
Routledge:
  • Chumashan
Other:
  • Barbareño Chumash,
  • Chumash (Barbareno),
  • Barbareno Chumash
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Indefinite Articles Indefinite affix
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
Number of Cases No morphological case-marking
Asymmetrical Case-Marking No case-marking
Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Numeral Classifiers Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
Nominal Syntax
Adjectives without Nouns Marked by prefix
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb VOS
Order of Subject and Verb VS
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative prefix
Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
Order of Person Markers on the Verb A precedes P
Passive Constructions Absent
Negative Morphemes Negative affix
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Symmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation Non-assignable
Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology