Tigrinya
WALS coordinates: 14° 30′ N, 38° 30′ E
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Morphology | ||
| Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Occurrence of Nominal Plurality | All nouns, always obligatory | |
| Definite Articles | Demonstrative word used as definite article | |
| Indefinite Articles | Indefinite word same as 'one' | |
| Nominal Syntax | ||
| Nominal and Verbal Conjunction | Differentiation | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Perfective/Imperfective Aspect | No grammatical marking | |
| The Past Tense | Present, no remoteness distinctions | |
| The Future Tense | Inflectional future exists | |
| The Perfect | No perfect | |
| 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 Adjective and Noun | Adjective-Noun | |
| Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative-Noun | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | OV and AdjN | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Indirect-object construction | |
