Pilagá

WALS coordinates: 25° S, 60° W

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly prefixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality	All nouns, always obligatory
Definite Articles	No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles	No definite or indefinite article
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SVO
Order of Subject and Verb	VS
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	No adpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause
Position of Polar Question Particles	Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'	Double-object construction
Negative Morphemes	Negative affix
Polar Questions	Question particle
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects	Subject is expressed overtly