1. Family: Oregon Coast
  2. Genus: Siuslawan

Siuslaw

WALS coordinates: 44° N, 124° W

spoken in United States

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Siuslaw
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Lower Umpqua, Umpqua,
    • Lower Umpqua,
    • Umpqua (Lower),
    • Siuslawan
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking
    Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Dependent marking
    Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
    Position of Case Affixes Mixed morphological case
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
    Possessive Classification Three to five classes
    Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' different from 'with'
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase No adpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
    Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3sg forms
    Order of Person Markers on the Verb Both orders of A and P occur
    Passive Constructions Present
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Symmetric
    Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation Non-assignable
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Predicative Possession Conjunctional
    Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Different
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
    Comparative Constructions Locational