1. Family: Hokan
  2. Genus: Yuman

Maricopa

WALS coordinates: 33° 10′ 12.00″ N, 113° 10′ 12.00″ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Average
      Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately high
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
      Uvular Consonants Uvular stops only
      Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
      Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
      The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
      Vowel Nasalization Contrast absent
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Syllable Structure Complex
      Tone No tones
      Fixed Stress Locations Ultimate
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
      Rhythm Types No rhythmic stress
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants 'Th' sounds
      Morphology
      Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives Exclusively concatenative
      Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives Monoexponential case
      Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb 8-9 categories per word
      Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking
      Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking
      Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Case Syncretism No syncretism
      Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking Not syncretic
      Nominal Categories
      Number of Genders None
      Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems No gender
      Systems of Gender Assignment No gender
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural stem change
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, optional
      Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Number-indifferent pronouns
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
      Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns 'We' the same as 'I'
      Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection 'We' the same as 'I'
      Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Five (or more)-way contrast
      Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction
      Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
      Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical
      Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
      Number of Cases 6-7 cases
      Asymmetrical Case-Marking Symmetrical
      Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
      Distributive Numerals Marked by suffix
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally different
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
      Possessive Classification Three to five classes
      Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed
      Adjectives without Nouns Without marking
      Action Nominal Constructions Possessive-Accusative
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
      Verbal Categories
      Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking
      The Past Tense No past tense
      The Future Tense Inflectional future exists
      The Perfect No perfect
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
      Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
      The Optative Inflectional optative present
      Epistemic Possibility Affixes on verbs
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Direct and indirect
      Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
      Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None
      Verbal Number and Suppletion Singular-dual-plural triples, no suppletion
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Mixed
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases Nominative - accusative (marked nominative)
      Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns Nominative - accusative (marked nominative)
      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 Zero in all 3rd person forms
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P are fused
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction
      Reciprocal Constructions Identical to reflexive
      Passive Constructions Present
      Antipassive Constructions No antipassive
      Applicative Constructions Benefactive and other; both bases
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Both
      Negative Morphemes Double negation
      Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Symmetric
      Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation Non-assignable
      Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
      Complex Sentences
      Relativization on Subjects Non-reduction
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly
      'When' Clauses Deranked
      Reason Clauses Deranked
      Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced/deranked
      Lexicon
      M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns