1. Family: Hokan
  2. Genus: Pomoan

Pomo (Eastern)

WALS coordinates: 39° N, 122° 40′ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Pomo (Eastern)
Routledge:
  • Pomoan
Other:
  • E. Pomo,
  • Eastern Pomo,
  • E Pomo,
  • Clear Lake Pomo
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Vowel Nasalization Contrast absent
Fixed Stress Locations Second
Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
Rhythm Types Iambic
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, obligatory
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Unrelated
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
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 Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Subordinating suffix
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative affix
Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Different
Finger and Hand Different
Numeral Bases Decimal
M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns