Huichol

WALS coordinates: 22° N, 104° W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Equal prefixing and suffixing
Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Comitatives and Instrumentals	Differentiation
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative	Second singular and second plural
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	OV and NRel
Simple Clauses
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'	Secondary-object construction
Reciprocal Constructions	Identical to reflexive
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Symmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	Non-assignable
Predicative Adjectives	Mixed
Nominal and Locational Predication	Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Impossible
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Identical
Finger and Hand	Different