A sketch on the morphosyntax of Kadorih : (Dohoi : Austronesian)

Abstract

This paper describes Kadorih morphology and morphosyntax, which have never before been sufficiently documented or analyzed. Starting with the phonological identification of affix forms and affixation processes (§2.1), some complex affixes will be analyzed from a morpho-phonological perspective, resulting in the division of Kadorih morphosyntactic affixes into 4 types (§ 2.2), 1st slot prefix (bV-, hV-), infix (-Vn-), 2nd slot prefix (kV-) and plain prefix (N-, pV-, tV-). At the end of the preliminary section §2.3, syntactic transitivity and three clause types in Kadorih will be discussed in order to explore each affixed form morphosyntactically (§3). This paper's summary in §4 includes a concise table of the affixes, focusing on each affix type, affix form, transitivity, volition and possible clause type.