1. Family: Iroquoian
  2. Genus: Northern Iroquoian

Mohawk

WALS coordinates: 43° 30′ N, 74° 15′ W

spoken in Canada, United States

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
      Rhythm Types No rhythmic stress
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person singular only
      Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
      Coding of Evidentiality Separate particle
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
      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 Other
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Active
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      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 Both orders of A and P occur
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Identical