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 |