1. Family: Salishan
  2. Genus: Central Salish

Halkomelem

WALS coordinates: 49° 30′ N, 122° 30′ W

spoken in Canada

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Halkomelem
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Upriver Halkomelem,
    • Halkomelem (Upriver)
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Three-way contrast
    Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Different stem
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person only, but also non-singular
    Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
    Coding of Evidentiality Separate particle
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
    Order of Subject and Verb VS
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Split
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
    Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3rd person forms
    Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction
    Passive Constructions Present
    Antipassive Constructions Oblique patient
    Applicative Constructions Benefactive and other; both bases
    Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Asymmetric
    Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Fin and A/NonReal
    Other
    Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Other or none