1. Family: Salinan
  2. Genus: Salinan

Salinan

WALS coordinates: 36° N, 121° W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only
      Position of Case Affixes Prepositional clitics
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Prefixes and suffixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Exists
      Possessive Classification Two classes
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
      Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A
      Passive Constructions Absent
      Negative Morphemes Variation between negative word and affix
      Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
      Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
      Nominal and Locational Predication Different
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
      Comparative Constructions Locational
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Different
      M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns