1. Family: Uto-Aztecan
  2. Genus: Numic

Shoshone

WALS coordinates: 41° N, 114° W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Shoshone
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Big Smokey Valley Shoshoni
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb XOV
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction
    Reciprocal Constructions Identical to reflexive
    Complex Sentences
    'Want' Complement Subjects Desiderative verbal affix
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different