1. Family: Penutian
  2. Genus: Chinookan

Chinook (Upper)

WALS coordinates: 45° 30′ N, 122° 30′ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Chinook (Upper)
Routledge:
  • Cathlamet
Other:
  • Wishram,
  • Kathlamet,
  • Wasco-Wishram,
  • Upper Chinook,
  • Cathlamet, Wishram, Wasco-Wishram
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives Exclusively concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives No case
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb 10-11 categories per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause Head marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Head-marking
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Mixed morphological plural
Numeral Classifiers Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
Word Order
Order of Subject and Verb VS
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Split
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
Lexicon
M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns N-M pronouns, paradigmatic