Naso

Family
Chibchan
Region
South America
ISO 639-3
tfr
Location
9.07°, -82.96°
Notes
Features
Flora Fauna Vocabulary
Grammatical Data
Data Sources
Constenla, Adolfo. 1981. Comparative Chibchan Phonology. PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. Quesada, J. Diego. 2000. A Grammar of Teribe. (LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics, 36.) München: Lincom.


Flora Fauna Vocabulary (1)
English Spanish Portuguese Semantic Field Part of Speech Linnean Name Orthographic Form Phonemicized Form Gloss as in Source Etymology Code Proto-Form Proto-Language Loan Source Etymology Notes Wanderwort Status Etyma Set Range of Term Word Structure Word Structure Notes Classifier Classifier Notes Hypernym Source Association with Social Categories Ritual/Mythologically Significant Ritual Notes Food Source Food Notes Medicinal Medicinal Notes How Collected Who Collects How Prepared Psychotropic Psychotropic Notes Traded Trade Notes Distribution Habitat Dangerous Ethnobiology Notes Species Notes General Notes
peach palm, pejibaye palm chontaduro (Col, Ecuador); pipire (Col); pijuayo (Peru), pijiguao (Ven); tembe (Bol) pupunha flora-fauna Bactris gasipaes šúp šúp peachpalm (Bactris Gasipaes HBK, Guilielma utilis Oerst. Constenla 1981:405


Grammatical Data (226)
Category Grammatical Feature Grammatical Feature: Notes Feature Status Grammatical Notes Source Etymology Notes General Notes Phylogenetic Code
Phonology - Segmental Pre-/post-nasalized stops Analysis posits that the stop is the most relevant underlying phoneme. Comment in notes on whether the nasal contour is understood as a phonetic (allophonic) effect, or is phonologically contrastive. no Quesada 2000
Phonology - Segmental Glottalized/ejective consonants Phonemic contrast [NOT counting glottal stop/fricative] no Quesada 2000
Phonology - Segmental Palatalized stops Phonemic contrast no Quesada 2000
Phonology - Segmental Phonemic vowel length Does the language have long and short vowels? no Quesada 2000
Phonology - Segmental Phonemic glottalization/laryngealization of vowels no Quesada 2000
Phonology - Segmental Complex onsets Onset consists of more than one consonant phoneme yes kl, pl are the only ones I found Quesada 2000
Phonology - Segmental No codas *(C)VC [no also equals highly constrained] no Quesada 2000
Phonology - Segmental Word-final coda required Do all syllables end in a consonant? no Quesada 2000
Phonology - Suprasegmental Contrastive tones Note how many contrastive tones yes high, low Quesada 2000 high and low limited to a small set
Phonology - Suprasegmental Contrastive stress Does stress occur on different syllables with meaning difference? no Quesada 2000
Phonology - Suprasegmental Nasalization property of morpheme or syllable In contrast to nasalization as a property of segments no Quesada 2000
Phonology - Suprasegmental Nasal spreading across some morpheme boundaries Do some affixes or other morphemes take the nasal/oral properties of the root they attach to? no Quesada 2000
Phonology - Suprasegmental Vowel harmony yes with a limited set of aspect affixes Quesada 2000 regressive in certain verbs
Morphology - General Verbal fusion (2+ categories marked by portmanteau morphemes on verb) Verb combines two or more categories (tense, aspect, mood, person, number, etc.) in portmanteau morphemes{ [ignore proclitics unless they are fused with values other than person/number] no Quesada 2000
Morphology - General Inflection manifested by replacement of segmental or suprasegmental phonemes Stem change, tone no Quesada 2000
Morphology - General Verbal synthesis (1+ inflectional categories marked by verbal affixes) Morphological complexity in verbs - multiple inflectional affixes in a single verb word no Quesada 2000
Morphology - General Prefixing/suffixing inflectional morph: strongly prefixing There are many more prefixes than suffixes no Quesada 2000
Morphology - General Prefixing/suffixing inflectional morph: strongly suffixing There are many more suffixes than prefixes yes Quesada 2000
Morphology - General Prefixing/suffixing inflectional morph: roughly equal or one weakly preferred The numbers of suffixes and prefixes are not notably different no Quesada 2000
Morphology - General Reduplication: full The full morpheme is reduplicated yes Quesada 2000
Morphology - General Reduplication: partial Only part of the morpheme is reduplicated no Quesada 2000
Morphology - Compounding, auxiliaries, light verbs Productive NN compounding Noun compounds created from two noun phrases are common and systematically produced yes Quesada 2000
Morphology - Compounding, auxiliaries, light verbs Productive VV serialization (without compounding) Verb roots can be combined in a single predicate without markers of subordination (distinct from subordinating construction) or distinct inflection yes positionals are not affixed Quesada 2000
Morphology - Compounding, auxiliaries, light verbs Productive VV compounding Serial verb constructions involve chaining of roots together in one morphophonological word no Quesada 2000
Morphology - Compounding, auxiliaries, light verbs Verb-adjunct (aka light verb) constructions There is a set of semantically weak verbs used in complex verbal constructions, e.g. 'take a nap' no Quesada 2000
Morphology - Compounding, auxiliaries, light verbs Auxiliary verb(s) There are verbs that accompany main verbs of clauses and take grammatical marking not expressed by main verbs yes Quesada 2000
Morphology - Incorporation Incorporation of nouns into verbs is a productive intransitivizing process Verb contains nominal segment no Quesada 2000
Morphology - Incorporation Productive incorporation of other elements (adjectives, locatives, etc.) into verbs Like noun incorporation, but incorporated elements are not nouns no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification Noun classes/genders Nouns are organized into sets with distinct morphological treatment; usually affects all nouns and involves agreement within the NP no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification Number of noun classes/genders Note the (approximate) total number of noun classes/genders no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification Noun classifiers (distinct from noun classes/genders) Nouns are organized into sets, but only a limited set of nouns may be implicated, with no or limited agreement marking. If only numeral classifiers exist, indicate yes but explain. yes Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification Sex is a relevant category in noun class(ification) system for animates Masculine, feminine, neuter no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification Sex is a relevant category in noun class(ification) system for inanimates no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification Animacy (w/o reference to sex) is a relevant category in the noun class(ification) system Animate/inanimate, human/non-human no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification Sex/gender distinction only in 3rd person pronouns add in notes section whether gender is present in other PNs or not in any PNs; consider with reference to pronouns and person marking only no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification Shape is a relevant category in the noun class(ification) system for animates no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification Shape is a relevant category in the noun class(ification) system for inanimates no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification "Repeater" classifiers Where no distinct classifier exists, a copy of the noun itself may function in the morphosyntactic classifier "slot" no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification Numeral classifiers (specific to numerals) Special classifier forms that occur only with numerals yes Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Gender and noun classification Classifiers used as derivational suffixes to derive nouns Verb + classifier = 'thing for doing V, thing that does V, etc.' no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Number Singular number may be marked on the noun Often occurs in a small subset of nouns if a single entity is referred to, e.g. insects that normally occur in groups no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Number Plural affix on noun yes Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Number Plural marked by stem change or tone on noun no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Number Plural marked by reduplication of noun no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Number Plural word/clitic no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Number Plural marked on human or animate nouns only yes Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Number Pronominal plural: stem + nominal plural affix Pronouns use a nominal plural affix not specific to pronouns no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Number Unique associative plural marker e.g. 'John and his associates', 'John and them' no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity Definite or specific articles Definite = particular referent known to both speaker and addressee; specific = particular referent known to speaker only no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity Marker of definiteness distinct from demonstratives Focus on articles/markers whose primary function is to mark definiteness no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity Indefinite or non-specific article or marker no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity Inclusive/exclusive: in free pronominals Inclusive =us + you, exclusive = us but not you yes Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity Inclusive/exclusive: in verbal inflection (bound) no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity Distance contrasts in demonstratives (number) Note the number of distances in the demonstrative system 3 3 distances (near, far, farthest) Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Definiteness and clusivity Other contrasts in demonstratives (visibility, elevation, etc.) yes non-visible (far, farthest) Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Pronominal categories Gender in 3sg pronouns no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Pronominal categories Gender in 3pl pronouns no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Pronominal categories Gender in 1st and/or 2nd person pronouns no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Pronominal categories Formal/informal distinction in pronouns Polite pronominal variants or differential avoidance of pronouns no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Pronominal categories Reflexive pronouns e.g. English 'himself', Spanish 'se'; distinct form(s) from basic (non-reflexive) pronominals; distinct from reflexive verbal affix yes 1 reflexive pronoun Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions Adpositions mark core NPs Prepositions or postpositions mark subjects, objects, beneficiaries/recipients no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions Case: number of cases Note the number of grammatical relations that may be morphologically marked on the noun no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions Case: only non-core arguments morphologically marked Subjects, objects, beneficiaries/recipients NOT marked, but other grammatical relations are no postpositions, not case markers Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions Case: symmetrical All NPs marked if in appropriate syntactic relation; no distinction in marking based on semantics (type of entity) no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions Case: asymmetrical Semantically defined subset of NPs marked for case, e.g. animates no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions Case: suffix or postpositional clitic no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions Case: prefix or prepositional clitic no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions Case: infix or inpositional clitic no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions Case: stem change no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions Case: tone no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Case and adpositions Case: comitative = instrumental Same marking for 'with a person' and 'with an instrument' no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Numerals Base-2 At least some part of the system involves base-2 no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Numerals Base-5 At least some part of the system involves base-5 no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Numerals Base-10 At least some part of the system involves base-10 yes Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Numerals Other base (specify) 4, 20, etc. no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Numerals Etymological transparency in any numerals under 5 e.g. two = 'eye-quantity' no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Numerals Numerals do not go above 5 'Many' or some other non-exact term used no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Numerals Numerals do not go above 10 'Many' or some other non-exact term used no they go above 10, but more common to count in Spanish Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Other nominal Tense or aspect inflection on non-verbal predicates i.e. nominal or adjectival no Quesada 2000
Nominal Categories - Other nominal Person inflection on non-verbal predicates i.e. nominal or adjectival no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Possession Pronominal possessive affixes: prefix on N alienable/inalienable? no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Possession Pronominal possessive affixes: suffix on N alienable/inalienable? no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Possession Head/dependent marking in possessive NP: dependent e.g. 'the boy-'s dog' no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Possession Head/dependent marking in possessive NP: head e.g. 'the boy his-dog' no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Possession Possessive classifiers There are special classifiers that occur with possessed entities no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Possession - Alienability Morphological marking of inalienable possession Where inalienable possession differs from alienable, the former takes a morphological marker (may include an associated free particle/pronoun) no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Possession - Alienability Morphological marking of alienable possession Where inalienable possession differs from alienable, the latter takes a morphological marker (may include an associated free particle/pronoun) no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Possession - Alienability Default marker for inalienably possessed nouns if unpossessed An inalienable noun that is in an unpossessed state must have a derivational affix or associated form no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Possession - Alienability Inalienable possession of kin terms 'my-father' but *father no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Possession - Alienability Inalienable possession of body parts (human/animal) 'my-leg' but *leg no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Possession - Alienability Generic human nouns are obligatorily bound/possessed Human nouns must co-occur with another noun (e.g. Hup-man, NonIndian-woman, but *man) no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Adjectives Underived adjectives There are underived adjectives which do not have counterparts in other word classes yes small class Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Adjectives Gender inflection on adjectives within the NP There is gender agreement/concord (animate/inanimate or masc/fem, etc.) within the NP, e.g. la casa blanca, el perro blanco no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Derivation Productive nominalizing morphology: action/state (arrive/arrival) There is a morpheme which derives an event from a verb yes Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Derivation Productive nominalizing morphology: agentive (sing/singer) There is a morpheme which derives an agent or subject from a verb no info Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Derivation Productive nominalizing morphology: object (sing/song) There is a morpheme which derives a patient or object from a verb no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Derivation Productive verbalizing morphology There is a morpheme which derives a verb from a noun or adjective no Quesada 2000
Nominal Syntax - Other NP coordination and comitative phrases marked differently 'John and Mary went to market' is marked differently from 'John went to market with Mary' yes Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense Dedicated past marker(s) Past tense is regularly morphologically marked on the verb or elsewhere no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense Multiple past tenses, distinguishing distance from time of reference e.g. distant vs. recent past no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense Multiple future tenses, distinguishing distance from time of reference e.g. imminent vs. distant future no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense Dedicated future or non-past marker(s) no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense Tense-aspect affixes: prefix no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense Tense-aspect affixes: suffix yes Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense Tense-aspect affixes: tone or ablaut no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Aspect and tense Tense-aspect suppletion no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Dedicated imperative morpheme or verb form There is a special morpheme (or morphemes, or a bare verb root where inflection is normally expected) used to signal imperative (command) mood yes singular and plural addresee Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Polite imperative morpheme There is a distinct morpheme for polite imperative constructions (specify if it has other functions in the language) no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Difference between negation in imperative (prohibitive) and declarative clauses There are different strategies for marking negation in imperative and declarative clauses yes Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Dedicated hortative morpheme or verb form (1pl or 3rd person imperative) as opposed to imperative; the person in control of desired state of affairs is not the addressee; ex: 'Let's sing' / 'Let him sing' no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Situational possibility: affix on verb Inflectional marking of capacity to do something yes Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Situational possibility: verbal construction no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Situational possibility: other marking no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Epistemic possibility: affix on verb Modal expressing hypothesis yes Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Epistemic possibility: verbal construction no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Epistemic possibility: other marking no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Marking of expected/unexpected action or result There is inflectional marking of expected/unexpected no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Verbal frustrative Modal expressing frustration ("in vain") yes particle Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Verbal habitual Modal expressing habituality no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Apprehensive construction There is a single morpheme or verb form to mean '(be careful lest) X happens' no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Reality status marking on verbs There are dedicated morpheme(s) for realis/irrealis 'actualized/unactualized events' no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Mood Affect markers (positive/negative) Note whether these inflectional markers are positive or negative no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Directionals Directional elements affixed to the verb There are grammaticalized elements indicating movement away, toward, there and back, etc. no movement particles, not affixes Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality Grammaticalized visual Indicates information has been witnessed visually - indicate only if an overt marker no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality Grammaticalized nonvisual Indicates information has been sensed firsthand but not visually (usually heard; also smelled, tasted, felt) no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality Grammaticalized inferential Indicates information has not been experienced firsthand, but inferred from some kind of evidence - indicate only if an overt marker. no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality Grammaticalized reportive Indicates speaker is not responsible for veracity of statement, merely reporting; 'allegedly' no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality Grammaticalized quotative Indicate presence of adjacent representation of repeated discourse no use of verb le 'say' after quoted expression Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality Other evidential Any other evidential values not represented above no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality Evidentiality: verb affix or clitic no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality Evidentiality: part of tense system Includes portmanteau morphs no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality Evidentiality: separate particle yes derived from verb to say Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Evidentiality Evidentiality: modal morpheme no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Verbal number Verbal number suppletion no Quesada 2000
Verbal Categories - Other Social interaction markers Note the type of interaction no Quesada 2000
Word Order No fixed basic constituent order yes SOV is main order, allows OVS too Quesada 2000
Word Order VS in intransitive clauses Verb precedes subject no Quesada 2000
Word Order VS in transitive clauses no Quesada 2000
Word Order VO in transitive clauses Verb precedes object no Quesada 2000
Word Order OS in transitive clauses Object precedes subject no Quesada 2000
Word Order Preposition-Noun no Quesada 2000
Word Order Noun-Postposition or case suffix yes postposition Quesada 2000
Word Order Gen-Noun Possessive phrase composed of a free possessor and its possessum has possessor first (e.g. John's book) yes Quesada 2000
Word Order Noun-Gen Possessive phrase composed of a free possessor and its possessum has possessum first (e.g. 'book of John') no Quesada 2000
Word Order Adj-Noun Adjective precedes the noun no Quesada 2000
Word Order Noun-Adj Adjective follows the noun yes Quesada 2000
Word Order Dem-Noun yes demonstrative can be prenominal and postnominal Quesada 2000
Word Order Noun-Dem yes see above. N Dem is preferred according to Quesada Quesada 2000
Word Order Num-Noun no Quesada 2000
Word Order Noun-Num yes Quesada 2000
Word Order Noun-Rel Relative clause follows noun that it modifies yes li relativizer Quesada 2000
Word Order Rel-Noun Relative clause precedes noun that it modifies no Quesada 2000
Word Order Re<Noun>l (internally headed relative) e.g. 'the dog cat chased-NMZR got away' ('the cat that the dog chased got away') yes Quesada 2000
Word Order Relative clause is correlative or adjoined e.g. 'what is running, the dog chased that cat' no Quesada 2000
Word Order Question word is clause initial 'what', 'who', etc. come first in interrogative clause no in-situ Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of case marking in full NPs: nominative-accusative w/ marked accusative Objects of transitive clauses ('P') have a unique marker, while subjects of transitive ('A') and intransitive ('S') clauses are unmarked or share a different marker from that occurring on objects no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of case marking in full NPs: nominative-accusative w/ marked nominative Subjects of transitive and intransitive clauses share a marker, while objects of transitives are unmarked no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of case marking in full NPs: ergative-absolutive Subjects of intransitive clauses and objects of transitives share a unique marker, while subjects of transitive clauses are unmarked or have a different marker no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of case marking in full NPs: tripartite Intransitive subjects, transitive subjects, and transitive objects all receive distinct case markers no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of case marking in full NPs: active-inactive Subjects of intransitive clauses are treated two different ways: like subjects of transitives if they are more agent-like (e.g. he jumped), and like objects of transitives if they are more patient-like (e.g. he fell asleep) no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of case marking of pronouns: marked accusative no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of case marking of pronouns: marked nominative yes Set of pronouns only used for subject of transitive and intransitive Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of case marking of pronouns: ergative-absolutive yes, no, mixed, other no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of case marking of pronouns: tripartite no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of case marking of pronouns: active-inactive no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of verbal person-marking: nominative-accusative Same as above, for pronominal affixes/clitics on verbs no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of verbal person-marking: ergative-absolutive yes, no, mixed, other no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of verbal person-marking: active-inactive no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of verbal person-marking: hierarchical Marking of A and P depends on their relative ranking on a hierarchy (usually 1>2>3 or 2>1>3) no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Alignment Alignment of verbal person-marking: split More than one of the above systems is represented in person marking, depending on e.g. person (e.g. 1/2 vs. 3), tense-aspect value, main vs. subordinate clause type, etc. no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking Pronominal subjects: pronouns in subject position Pronominal subjects are free pronouns that occur in the same position as full NP subjects yes may also be attached to V Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking Pronominal subjects: prefixes on verb Pronominal subjects are marked as verbal prefixes (free pronouns may be another option) no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking Pronominal subjects: suffixes on verb Pronominal subjects are marked as verbal suffixes (free pronouns may be another option) yes in 0 anaphora constructions Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking Pronominal subjects: clitics on variable host Pronominal subjects are clitics that can attach to verbs, nominal constituents, etc. no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking Pronominal subjects: pronouns in non-subject position Pronominal subjects are free pronouns but do not normally occur in the position expected for full NP subjects yes Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking Person marking on intransitive verbs Intransitive verbs take person-marking clitics/affixes no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking Person marking (of agents) on transitive verbs Transitive verbs take subject (A) markers yes Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking Person-marking (of objects) on transitive verbs Transitive verbs take object (P) markers no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking 3rd person zero in verbal person marking: subjects 3rd person subjects are not overtly marked within the verbal person-marking system no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking 3rd person zero in verbal person marking: objects 3rd person objects are not overtly marked within the verbal person-marking system no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking Number can be marked separately from person on the verb Verbal person marking exists, but number is (or can) be marked separately no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking Possessive affixes/clitics on nouns are same as verbal person markers Where nouns take possessive affixes, these are the same as the person-marking affixes no no possessive affixes/clitics Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Pronouns and person marking Gender distinguished in verbal person markers For any person, verbal person markers exhibit different forms depending on the gender (masc/fem, animate/inanimate, etc.) of the referent no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice Ditransitive constructions: indirect object In ditransitives (e.g. 'John gives a book to Bill'), the theme (book) is treated in the same way as are objects of transitives, while the recipient/beneficiary (Bill) is treated differently yes recipient/beneficiary marked with a dative postpositional Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice Ditransitive constructions: double object In ditransitives (e.g. 'John gives Bill a book'), both the theme (book) and the recipient/beneficiary (Bill) is treated in the same way as are objects of transitives no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice Ditransitive constructions: secondary object In ditransitives, the recipient/beneficiary is treated in the same way as are objects of transitives, while the theme (book) is treated differently no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Decreasing Reciprocal: dedicated morpheme Verb becomes reciprocal through use of reciprocal morpheme associated with the verb (may be attached to the verb root). This morpheme is only used to mean reciprocal. no reciprocal pronoun Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Decreasing Reflexive: dedicated morpheme Verb becomes reflexive through use of reflexive morpheme associated with the verb (may be attached to the verb root). This morpheme is used only to mean reflexive. no reflexive pronoun Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Decreasing Reciprocal/reflexive: same morpheme Verb becomes reciprocal or reflexive through use of a morpheme that means either reciprocal or reflexive which attaches to the root of the verb no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Decreasing Passive Passive voice usually involves a change to the verb, while the object of the active voice verb is promoted to subject in the passive voice, and the former subject is deleted/demoted no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Decreasing Antipassive Like passive, but deletes or demotes the object of a transitive verb; usually found in ergative languages no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Decreasing Other intransitivizing morphology There is/are some other mechanism(s) for reducing valency no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing Applicative: benefactive Applicative adds a beneficiary/maleficiary object argument to the verb no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing Applicative: other Applicative adds some other object argument to the verb no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing Causative: prefix Causative is morphological and is attached before the root of the verb no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing Causative: suffix Causative is morphological and is attached after the root of the verb no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing Causative marked by circumfix, stem change, or tone Morphological causative other than simple prefix/suffix no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing Causative: serial verb or analytical construction Causative construction that involves periphrasis or serialization yes periphrastic Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing Causative: dedicated 'make do by proxy' Indicates that the causer does not directly cause the action of the verb to be realized, but does so by inducing someone else to carry out the action, e.g. 'John had the house painted.' no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing Causative: dedicated sociative Indicates that causer participates in event no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Valence and voice - Increasing Other transitivizing morphology (adds valence) There is/are some other mechanism(s) for increasing valency yes dative shift Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Negation Clausal negator is a preposed element Clausal negator is a preposed element no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Negation Clausal negator is a postposed element Clausal negator is a postposed element yes clause final Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Negation Negatives: affix Negatives: affix no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Negation Negatives: particle Negatives: particle yes negator particle Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Negation Negatives: auxiliary verb Negatives: auxiliary verb no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Negation Negatives: double Standard (non-emphatic) negation typically requires two morphemes, e.g. French 'ne V pas' no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Negation Distinct negative form for 'NP does not exist' yes Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Negation Distinct negative expression 'I don't know' Lexical expression or highly idiomatic phrase no info Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Interrogatives Polar questions: interrogative particle Yes/no questions distinguished from declaratives by interrogative particle yes Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Interrogatives Polar questions: verb morphology Yes/no questions distinguished from declaratives by interrogative verb morphology no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Interrogatives Polar questions: word order Yes/no questions distinguished from declaratives by word order (esp. subject-verb inversion) no info Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Interrogatives Polar questions: intonation only Yes/no questions distinguished from declaratives by intonation only no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Interrogatives Content questions: word order differs from declaratives Content questions distinguished from declaratives by word order (esp. subject-verb inversion) as well as by presence of Q-word (who, what, etc.) no Q words in-situ Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Predication Predicate adjectives: verbal Adjectives act like verbs in predicative position no info Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Predication Predicate adjectives: nominal Adjectives act like nouns in predicative position no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Predication Zero copula for predicate nominals is possible Predicate nominals may occur without a copula (i.e. grammatical in some circumstances, if not all) yes Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Predication Headless relative clauses Compare Eng 'the one that fell' (but in Eng 'one' could be considered a head) yes Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Predication Headless relative clauses are the dominant or only form of relative clause Relative clauses that form a constituent with a head noun (in a single noun phrase) are rare or nonexistent; some descriptions may refer to adjoined or correlative clauses. no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Predication Relative clause may occur with a noun classifier/class marker It may be unclear whether the classifier is the nominal head of the construction or is an agreement marker on the relative clause no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Predication Relativizer is a verbal affix no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Predication Morphological relativizer is homophonous with nominalizer The same morpheme marks a relative clause and is a nominalizer on verbs (and/or other word classes) no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Desiderative expressions Grammaticalized verbal desiderative Indicates that the subject desires to carry out the action denoted by the verb (distinct from verb 'want', but may be grammaticalized from it) no verb woydë 'want' Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Other Clause chaining Clauses can be grouped such that only one bears most of the verb morphology, and the others are marked as to whether they share a subject with this reference clause. no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Other Morphologically marked switch-reference system There are special markers to indicate same vs. different subject when two clauses are combined no Quesada 2000
Simple Clauses - Other Morphologically marked distinction between simultaneous and sequential clauses Morphology (usually on verb) distinguishes between clauses denoting events that occur at the same time or in sequence no Quesada 2000