Palikur
WALS coordinates: 3° N, 51° W
spoken in Brazil
Alternative Names
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Features
| ID | Feature | Value | Area | References | |
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| 26A | Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Strongly suffixing | Morphology | comment | |
| 33A | Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural suffix | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 36A | The Associative Plural | No associative plural | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 37A | Definite Articles | No definite or indefinite article | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 38A | Indefinite Articles | No definite or indefinite article | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 44A | Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns | 3rd person only, but also non-singular | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 48A | Person Marking on Adpositions | Pronouns and nouns | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 51A | Position of Case Affixes | No case affixes or adpositional clitics | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 55A | Numeral Classifiers | Obligatory | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 57A | Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | Possessive prefixes | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 69A | Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 77A | Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality | No grammatical evidentials | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 78A | Coding of Evidentiality | No grammatical evidentials | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 81A | Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SVO | Word Order | comment | |
| 82A | Order of Subject and Verb | SV | Word Order | comment | |
| 83A | Order of Object and Verb | VO | Word Order | comment | |
| 85A | Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Prepositions | Word Order | comment | |
| 86A | Order of Genitive and Noun | Genitive-Noun | Word Order | comment | |
| 87A | Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | Word Order | comment | |
| 88A | Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative-Noun | Word Order | comment | |
| 89A | Order of Numeral and Noun | Numeral-Noun | Word Order | comment | |
| 91A | Order of Degree Word and Adjective | Degree word-Adjective | Word Order | comment | |
| 92A | Position of Polar Question Particles | Initial | Word Order | comment | |
| 93A | Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions | Initial interrogative phrase | Word Order | comment | |
| 95A | Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | VO and Prepositions | Word Order | comment | |
| 97A | Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | VO and NAdj | Word Order | comment | |
| 100A | Alignment of Verbal Person Marking | Accusative | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 101A | Expression of Pronominal Subjects | Obligatory pronouns in subject position | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 102A | Verbal Person Marking | Only the P argument | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 103A | Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking | No zero realization | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 104A | Order of Person Markers on the Verb | A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 107A | Passive Constructions | Present | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 116A | Polar Questions | Question particle | Simple Clauses | comment |
