Editing Shoshoni language (section)

==== Number and case ====
Shoshoni is a [[Nominative–accusative language|nominative-accusative]] language. Shoshoni nouns inflect for three [[Grammatical case|cases]] ([[Subjective case|subjective]], [[Objective case|objective]], and [[possessive]]) and for three [[Grammatical number|numbers]] (singular, dual, and plural).

Number is marked by suffixes on all human nouns and optionally on other animate nouns. The regular suffixes for number are listed in the table below. The Shoshoni singular is unmarked.<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|26}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
! colspan="3" |Number
|-
! Singular
! Dual
! Plural
|-
! rowspan="3" |Case
! Subjective
| Ø ||-nɨwɨh||-nɨɨn
|-
! Objective
|Ø||-nihi||-nii
|-
! Possessive
| Ø
| -nɨhɨn || -nɨɨn
|}
Case is also marked by suffixes, which vary depending on the noun. Subjective case is unmarked. Many nouns also have a zero objective case marker; other possible objective markers are ''-tta'', ''-a'', and ''-i''. These suffixes correspond with the possessive case markers ''-n'', ''-ttan'' or ''-n'', ''-an'', or ''-n'' (in Western Shoshoni; this last suffix also appears as ''-an'' in Gosiute and is replaced by ''-in'' in Northern Shoshoni). These case markers can be predicted only to a degree based on phonology of the noun stem.<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|27}}