Salinan

WALS coordinates: 36° N, 121° W

spoken in United States

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Salinan
Routledge:
Other:
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Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article Nominal Categories
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44A Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions Nominal Categories
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48A Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Prepositional clitics Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Prefixes and suffixes 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 No tense-aspect inflection 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 VS Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order 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 No dominant order Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle 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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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other Word Order
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100A Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative Simple Clauses
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102A Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments Simple Clauses
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103A Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization Simple Clauses
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104A Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A Simple Clauses
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107A Passive Constructions Absent Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Double negation Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Different Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible Simple Clauses
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121A Comparative Constructions Locational 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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136A M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns Lexicon
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136B M in First Person Singular No m in first person singular Lexicon
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137A N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns Lexicon
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137B M in Second Person Singular m in second person singular Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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143B Obligatory Double Negation Neg[Neg-V] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV&[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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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages ObligNeg Word Order
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144F Obligatory Double Negation in SVO languages S[Neg-V]O & NegV Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Prefix&OnlyWithAnotherNeg 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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