Lillooet

WALS coordinates: 50° 45′ N, 122° W

spoken in Canada

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
The Velar Nasal	No velar nasal
Morphology
Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality	All nouns, always obligatory
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives	Unrelated
Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive suffixes
Nominal Syntax
Adjectives without Nouns	Without marking
Noun Phrase Conjunction	'And' different from 'with'
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction	Differentiation
Verbal Categories
The Morphological Imperative	Second singular and second plural
The Prohibitive	Special imperative + special negative
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 Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
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 affixes on verb
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'	Secondary-object construction
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation	Predicate negation also present
Predicative Possession	'Have'
Predicative Adjectives	Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication	Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Impossible
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects	Subject is left implicit