Totonac (Misantla)
WALS coordinates: 19° 55′ N, 96° 55′ W
spoken in Mexico
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Features
| ID | Feature | Value | Area | References | |
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| 20A | Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Exclusively concatenative | Morphology | comment | |
| 21A | Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives | No case | Morphology | comment | |
| 21B | Exponence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Inflection | monoexponential TAM | Morphology | comment | |
| 26A | Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Equal prefixing and suffixing | Morphology | comment | |
| 27A | Reduplication | No productive reduplication | Morphology | comment | |
| 30A | Number of Genders | None | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 31A | Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems | No gender | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 32A | Systems of Gender Assignment | No gender | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 33A | Coding of Nominal Plurality | Mixed morphological plural | Nominal Categories |
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| 37A | Definite Articles | Definite word distinct from demonstrative | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 43A | Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives | Unrelated | Nominal Categories |
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| 44A | Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns | No gender distinctions | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 48A | Person Marking on Adpositions | No person marking | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 51A | Position of Case Affixes | No case affixes or adpositional clitics | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 57A | Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | Possessive prefixes | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 58A | Obligatory Possessive Inflection | Exists | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 58B | Number of Possessive Nouns | None reported | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 59A | Possessive Classification | No possessive classification | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 69A | Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Mixed type | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 70A | The Morphological Imperative | No second-person imperatives | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 71A | The Prohibitive | Special imperative + special negative | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 72A | Imperative-Hortative Systems | Maximal system | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 87A | Order of Adjective and Noun | No dominant order | Word Order | comment | |
| 88A | Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative-Noun | Word Order | comment | |
| 97A | Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | Other | Word Order | comment | |
| 100A | Alignment of Verbal Person Marking | Accusative | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 102A | Verbal Person Marking | Both the A and P arguments | Simple Clauses |
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| 103A | Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking | Zero in all 3sg forms | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 104A | Order of Person Markers on the Verb | Both orders of A and P occur | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 107A | Passive Constructions | Absent | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 118A | Predicative Adjectives | Nonverbal encoding | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 119A | Nominal and Locational Predication | Different | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 120A | Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals | Possible | Simple Clauses | comment |
