Editing Timbisha language (section)

==Grammar==
Study of Timbisha has been carried on by Jon Dayley and John McLaughlin, both of whom wrote grammatical descriptions.<ref name="1989a"/><ref name="panamint"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=McLaughlin |first1=John E. |title=Timbisha (Panamint) |date=2006 |series=Languages of the world/materials 453|publisher=LINCOM Europa |location=Munich}}</ref> Dayley has published a dictionary.<ref name="1989b">{{cite journal|last1=Dayley|first1=Jon P.|title=Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Dictionary|journal=University of California Publications in Linguistics|date=1989|volume=116|location=Berkeley|publisher=University of California Press}}</ref>

===Word order and case marking===
Timbisha [[word order]] is usually SOV as in:

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|taipo kinni'a punittai
|white-man falcon saw
|"The white man saw a falcon"}}

The [[accusative case]] and [[possessive case]] are marked with [[suffixes]]. Adverbial relationships are marked with [[postpositions]] on [[nouns]] as well as with true [[adverbs]]. For example:

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|kahni-pa'a
|house-on
|"on the house"}}

Adjectives are usually prefixed to the nouns they modify, unless the relationship is temporary when they are independent words with special suffixes. Compare ''tosa-kapayu'', 'white-horse', "palomino or other pale-colored breed" and ''tosapihtü kapayu'', 'white/pale horse', "white or pale horse" (who happens to be white or pale, but whose siblings may be any color).

===Verbs===
[[Verbs]] are marked for [[grammatical aspect]] with [[suffixes]]. [[valency (linguistics)|Valence]] is marked with both [[Prefix (linguistics)|prefixes]] and [[suffixes]]. Some common [[intransitive verbs]] have [[suppletive]] forms for singular or plural subjects and some common [[transitive verbs]] have [[suppletive]] forms for singular or plural objects. Otherwise, there is no [[Agreement (linguistics)|grammatical agreement]] marked by the verb.