Portuguese

WALS coordinates: 39° N, 8° W

spoken in Portugal

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Portuguese
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Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
14A Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Lexical stress Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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27A Reduplication No productive reduplication Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory Nominal Categories
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36A The Associative Plural No associative plural Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one' Nominal Categories
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45A Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns Binary politeness distinction Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Mixed Nominal Categories
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47A Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Differentiated Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th Nominal Categories
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65A Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking Verbal Categories
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66A The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions Verbal Categories
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67A The Future Tense No inflectional future Verbal Categories
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68A The Perfect No perfect Verbal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative Verbal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system Verbal Categories
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74A Situational Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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75A Epistemic Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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76A Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking Overlap for both possibility and necessity Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Initial Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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115A Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Mixed behaviour Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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138A Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb SNegVO Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed preverbal Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages SNegVO Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order No SVONeg Word Order
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