Pawnee

WALS coordinates: 41° N, 98° 40′ W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and 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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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes Nominal Categories
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58A Obligatory Possessive Inflection Exists Nominal Syntax
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58B Number of Possessive Nouns None reported Nominal Syntax
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59A Possessive Classification Two classes Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality Verbal affix or clitic Verbal Categories
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative prefix Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Mixed Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Identical Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [Neg-V] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes [Neg-V] 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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