1. Family: Salishan
  2. Genus: Interior Salish

Kalispel

WALS coordinates: 48° N, 117° W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Kalispel
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
      Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article
      Number of Cases 6-7 cases
      Asymmetrical Case-Marking Symmetrical
      Position of Case Affixes Case prefixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
      Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      Simple Clauses
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
      Nominal and Locational Predication Different
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Identical