Grammatical Units

Austronesian Languages

Austroasiatic Languages

Morphology

(i) Agglutinative: affixes(prefix, infix, suffix)

Reduplication: first syllable of root word, root of complex word, whole word

Isolative

Reduplication: whole word

Word

Full words

Particles

Full words

Phrase

Head-Modifier (H-M) Prepositional

Head-Modifier (H-M)

Clause

Independent

Dependent

Independent

Sentence

Subject-Verb-Object

(SVO)

Subject-Verb-Object

(SVO)

Complex Sentence

Paratactic―with & without conjunctions

Hypotactic―with conjunctions

Paratactic―without conjunctions