Yawelmani
WALS coordinates: 35° 25′ N, 119° W
spoken in United States
Alternative Names
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Features
| ID | Feature | Value | Area | References | |
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| 14A | Fixed Stress Locations | Penultimate | Phonology | comment | |
| 15A | Weight-Sensitive Stress | Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) | Phonology | comment | |
| 16A | Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | No weight | Phonology | comment | |
| 26A | Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Strongly suffixing | Morphology | comment | |
| 27A | Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | Morphology | comment | |
| 33A | Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural suffix | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 34A | Occurrence of Nominal Plurality | All nouns, always optional | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 49A | Number of Cases | 6-7 cases | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 50A | Asymmetrical Case-Marking | Symmetrical | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 51A | Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 55A | Numeral Classifiers | Absent | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 57A | Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | No possessive affixes | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 64A | Nominal and Verbal Conjunction | Identity | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 69A | Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 77A | Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality | No grammatical evidentials | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 78A | Coding of Evidentiality | No grammatical evidentials | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 81A | Order of Subject, Object and Verb | No dominant order | Word Order | comment | |
| 82A | Order of Subject and Verb | No dominant order | Word Order | comment | |
| 83A | Order of Object and Verb | VO | Word Order | comment | |
| 84A | Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb | No dominant order | Word Order | comment | |
| 92A | Position of Polar Question Particles | Initial | Word Order | comment | |
| 101A | Expression of Pronominal Subjects | Subject affixes on verb | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 112A | Negative Morphemes | Negative particle | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 113A | Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation | Symmetric | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 114A | Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation | Non-assignable | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 116A | Polar Questions | Question particle | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 136A | M-T Pronouns | No M-T pronouns | Lexicon | comment | |
| 136B | M in First Person Singular | No m in first person singular | Lexicon | comment | |
| 137A | N-M Pronouns | N-M pronouns, paradigmatic | Lexicon | comment | |
| 137B | M in Second Person Singular | m in second person singular | Lexicon | comment | |
| 143A | Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb | NegV | Word Order | comment | |
| 143E | Preverbal Negative Morphemes | NegV | Word Order | comment | |
| 143F | Postverbal Negative Morphemes | None | Word Order | comment | |
| 143G | Minor morphological means of signaling negation | None | Word Order | comment |
