Editing Zuni language (section)

==Morphology==
Word order in Zuni is fairly free with a tendency toward SOV. There is no case-marking on nouns. Verbs are complex, compared to nouns, with loose incorporation. Like other languages in the Southwest, Zuni employs [[switch-reference]].

Newman (1965, 1996) classifies Zuni words according to their structural [[Morphology (linguistics)|morphological]] properties (namely the presence and type of inflectional suffixes), not according to their associated syntactic frames. His terms, ''noun'' and ''substantive'', are therefore not synonymous.

=== Pronouns ===
Zuni uses overt pronouns for first and second persons. There are no third person pronouns.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nichols|first1=Lynn|title=Topics in Zuni Syntax|date=1997|publisher=Harvard University|page=35}}</ref> The pronouns distinguish three numbers (singular, dual and plural) and three cases (subject, object and possessive). In addition, some subject and possessive pronouns have different forms depending on whether they appear utterance-medially or utterance-finally (object pronouns do not occur utterance-medially). All pronoun forms are shown in the following table:

{| class=wikitable
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" |
!colspan=2|Subject
!rowspan=2|Object
!colspan=2|Possessive
|-style="font-size:88%"
! Medial !! Final !! Medial !! Final
|-
! rowspan="3" | 1st person
! singular
| hoʼ || ho:ʼo || hom || hom || homma
|-
! dual
| hon || hoʼno || hoʼnaʼ || hoʼnaʼ || hoʼnaʼ
|-
! plural
| hon || hoʼno || hoʼnaʼ || hoʼnʼa:wan || hoʼnʼa:wan
|-
! rowspan="3" | 2nd person
! singular
| doʼ || do:ʼo || dom || dom || domma
|-
! dual
| don || doʼno || doʼnaʼ || doʼnaʼ || doʼnaʼ
|-
! plural
| don || doʼno || doʼnaʼ || doʼnʼa:wan || doʼnʼa:wan
|}

There is syncretism between dual and plural non-possessive forms in the first and second persons. Utterances with these pronouns are typically disambiguated by the fact that plural pronouns agree with plural-marked verb forms.