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Southern Athabascan (also Apachean, Southern Athabaskan) is a subfamily of Athabaskan languages spoken in the North American Southwest. Refer to Southern Athabascan languages for the main article. ==Typological overview== Typologically, Southern Athabaskan languages are mostly fusional, polysynthetic, nominative–accusative head-marking languages. These languages are argued to be non-configurational languages. The canonical word order is SOV, as can be seen in Lipan example below: : Kónitsąąhį́į́ dziłádałts’aa’híí áí daajiłdiił "The Lipan ate those wild grapes." : Subject = Kónitsąąhį́į́ "the Lipan" : Object = dziłádałts’aa’híí áí "those wild grapes" (''dziłádałts’aa’híí'' "wild grapes", ''áí'' "those") : Verb = daajiłdiił "they ate them" Southern Athabaskan words are modified primarily by prefixes, which is uncommon for SOV languages (suffixes are expected). The Southern Athabaskan languages are "verb-heavy" — they have a great ponderance of verbs but relatively few nouns. In addition to verbs and nouns, these languages have other elements such as pronouns, clitics of various functions, demonstratives, numerals, adverbs, and conjunctions, among others. Harry Hoijer grouped most of the above into a word class which he called ''particle'' based on the type of inflection that occurs on the word class. This categorization provides three main lexical categories (i.e. parts of speech): # verbs # nouns/postpositions # particles There is nothing that corresponds to what are called ''adjectives'' in English. Adjectival notions are provided by verbs; however, these adjectival verb stems do form a distinct sub-class of verb stems which co-occur with adjectival prefixes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Southern Athabascan grammar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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