1. Family: Arawakan
  2. Genus: Arawakan

Palikur

WALS coordinates: 3° N, 51° W

spoken in Brazil

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      The Associative Plural No associative plural
      Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
      Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person only, but also non-singular
      Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns and nouns
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Numeral Classifiers Obligatory
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
      Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
      Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
      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 NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position
      Verbal Person Marking Only the P argument
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
      Passive Constructions Present
      Polar Questions Question particle