Kokota

WALS coordinates: 8° S, 159° 7′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Solomon Islands

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Kokota
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
      Definite Articles No definite, but indefinite article
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      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 pronouns in different position
      Negative Morphemes Negative word, unclear if verb or particle