Nootka stems are either ‘inflected’ or ‘uninflected’: these are the two major parts of speech. Inflected stems all have the same potential range of inflectional possibilities, whether from their meanings we should expect them to be nouns or verbs or something else. Some of the inflected forms are nounlike in their syntax, while others are verblike.
- Hockett (1958), a pag.224-225