Siuslaw
Oregon Coast family · Siuslawan branch · North America
WALS records no dominant basic order of subject, object and verb for Siuslaw, a group that holds 189 of the 1,376 languages it codes for this feature.
On Position of Case Affixes, WALS codes Siuslaw as “Mixed morphological case strategies with none primary”, a value held by 9 of the 1,031 languages coded, Swahili and Mangarrayi among them.
On Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase, WALS codes Siuslaw as “No adpositions”, a value held by 30 of the 1,184 languages coded, Kayardild and Ngiyambaa among them.
Contrast Siuslaw with Coos (Hanis) or with any other language
Uncommon values
Values that fewer than one in ten of the coded languages share with Siuslaw, rarest first.
- Order of Person Markers on the VerbBoth orders of A and P occur19 of 379
- Order of Subject and VerbBoth orders with neither order dominant110 of 1,496
- Order of Genitive and NounBoth orders occur with neither order dominant96 of 1,249
- Possessive ClassificationThree to five classes20 of 243
Closest profiles
Languages that share the most coded values with Siuslaw; the count is out of the features both languages are coded for.
The rest of the profile
WALS codes Siuslaw for 48 of the 144 profile features used on this site. The remaining 41 are listed here, grouped by topic; within each group the value Siuslaw shares with the fewest languages comes first.
Word structure 6
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Locus of Marking in the Clause | P is double-marked | 58 of 236 |
| Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases | Possessor is dependent-marked | 98 of 236 |
| Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Predominantly suffixing | 406 of 969 |
| Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology | Inconsistent marking or other type | 121 of 236 |
| Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | 278 of 368 |
| Zero Marking of A and P Arguments | Non-zero marking | 219 of 235 |
Nouns and pronouns 7
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Person Marking on Adpositions | No adpositions | 63 of 378 |
| Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | Possessive suffixes | 355 of 902 |
| Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural suffix | 513 of 1,066 |
| Indefinite Pronouns | Interrogative-based indefinites | 194 of 326 |
| Numeral Classifiers | Numeral classifiers are absent | 260 of 400 |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Differentiation | 213 of 322 |
| Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns | No gender distinctions | 254 of 378 |
Noun phrases 4
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Nominal and Verbal Conjunction | Nominal and verbal conjunction are largely identical | 161 of 301 |
| Noun Phrase Conjunction | AND-languages: 'and' and 'with' are not identical | 131 of 234 |
| Obligatory Possessive Inflection | No obligatorily possessed nouns | 201 of 244 |
| Number of Possessive Nouns | None reported | 233 of 243 |
Verbs: tense, mood, evidence 3
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality | No grammatical evidentials | 181 of 418 |
| Coding of Evidentiality | No grammatical evidentials | 181 of 418 |
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | 667 of 1,131 |
Word order 7
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Order of Adjective and Noun | Modifying adjective precedes noun (AdjN) | 373 of 1,367 |
| Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions | Interrogative phrases obligatorily initial | 264 of 902 |
| Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb | More than one order with none dominant | 167 of 500 |
| Order of Numeral and Noun | Numeral precedes noun (NumN) | 479 of 1,154 |
| Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative word precedes noun (DemN) | 542 of 1,225 |
| Order of Object and Verb | Object follows verb (VO) | 705 of 1,518 |
| Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause | Initial subordinator word | 398 of 659 |
Simple clauses 14
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking | Zero realization of all third person singular S forms | 45 of 380 |
| Predicative Possession | Conjunctional Possessive | 59 of 240 |
| Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation | Symmetric standard negation only: Type Sym | 114 of 297 |
| Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation | Non-assignable (no asymmetry found) | 114 of 297 |
| Predicative Adjectives | Predicative adjectives have verbal encoding | 151 of 386 |
| Negative Morphemes | Negative particle | 502 of 1,157 |
| Passive Constructions | There is a passive construction | 162 of 373 |
| Comparative Constructions | Locational Comparative | 78 of 167 |
| Verbal Person Marking | Person marking of both the A and P arguments | 193 of 378 |
| Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals | Zero copula is impossible | 211 of 386 |
| Alignment of Verbal Person Marking | Accusative alignment | 212 of 380 |
| Polar Questions | Question particle | 585 of 955 |
| Expression of Pronominal Subjects | Pronominal subjects are expressed by affixes on verbs | 437 of 711 |
| Nominal and Locational Predication | Different | 269 of 386 |