1. Family: Caddoan
  2. Genus: Caddoan

Pawnee

WALS coordinates: 41° N, 98° 40′ 12.00″ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
      Reduplication No productive reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Exists
      Possessive Classification Two classes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
      Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic
      Word Order
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative prefix
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix
      Predicative Adjectives Mixed
      Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible