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23-575: KBK could refer to: Grass Koiari language; ISO 639-3 language code KBK Karlsborgs BK , a bandy club in Sweden KBK Indian graphic news agency , Indian graphic news agency Keluarga Besar Purnawirawan , an Indonesian military veteran organization Kents Bank railway station , England; National Rail station code KBK Khamil Ghat railway station , India; Indian Railways station code KBK Klarenbeek railway station, Netherlands Køge BK ,

46-497: A time–manner–place ordering of adpositional phrases . In linguistic typology, one can usefully distinguish two types of SOV languages in terms of their type of marking: In practice, of course, the distinction between these two types is far from sharp. Many SOV languages are substantially double-marking and tend to exhibit properties intermediate between the two idealised types above. Many languages that have shifted to SVO word order from earlier SOV retain (at least to an extent)

69-550: A basic sentence such as " Ich sage etwas über Karl " ("I say something about Karl") is in SVO word order. Non-finite verbs are placed at the end, however, since V2 only applies to the finite verb: " Ich will etwas über Karl sagen " ("I want to say something about Karl"). In a subordinate clause , the finite verb is not affected by V2, and also appears at the end of the sentence, resulting in full SOV order: " Ich sage, dass Karl einen Gürtel gekauft hat. " (Word-for-word: "I say that Karl

92-574: A belt bought has.") A rare example of SOV word order in English is "I (subject) thee (object) wed (verb)" in the wedding vow "With this ring, I thee wed." SOV languages have a strong tendency to use postpositions rather than prepositions , to place auxiliary verbs after the action verb, to place genitive noun phrases before the possessed noun, to place a name before a title or honorific ("James Uncle" and "Johnson Doctor" rather than "Uncle James" and "Doctor Johnson") and to have subordinators appear at

115-497: A few minor differences. The phonology of Grass Koiari can be described as simple; it has all open syllables, and lacks unusual vowels and consonants and complex consonant clusters. There are also no phonotactics present in the language. The two types of syllables that occur are V (vowel) and CV (consonant-vowel). Sequences of vowels are interpreted as glides rather than diphthongs . No closed syllables or consonant clusters are present. Morphophonemic alternations are missing from

138-668: A football club in Denmark Kalahandi Balangir Koraput , a region in Orissa, India Kristiansund BK , a football club in Norway Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne , a yearly bicycle race in Belgium Killer Be Killed , an American heavy metal band Karlstad BK , a Swedish football team Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

161-511: A post or prenominal modifier to a noun head. Prenominal modifiers consist of pronouns, certain adjectives, participial and relative clause modifiers, and other nouns. Post nominal modifiers consist of most adjectives, demonstratives, quantifiers, and limiters. The post nominal modifiers must be in the listed order in the case that more than one is present. If a noun phrase involves relative clauses embedded in possessive noun phrases, it may be complex. Complex and simple noun phrases may be joined by

184-421: A true or derived verb and which suffixes are present. Generally, the stress is placed in their root's initial syllable then the syllable containing the penultimate consonant. In mono or disyllabic roots, stress is placed on the first syllable. In trisyllabic roots, stress is placed on the syllable in the penultimate consonant, or if not present, the first syllable. In roots containing four or more syllables, stress

207-436: Is subject–verb–object (SVO). The term is often loosely used for ergative languages like Adyghe and Basque that really have agents instead of subjects. Among natural languages with a word order preference, SOV is the most common type (followed by subject–verb–object ; the two types account for more than 87% of natural languages with a preferred order). Languages that have SOV structure include Standard Chinese

230-696: Is applied to polysyllabic nouns greater than two; <vahE> to adjectives and partially possessive nouns; <gE> to adverbs, propositions, and certain numerals; <ikE> to pronouns. Specifiers occur on all basic sentences and discourse connectives and are always placed on a constituent's last element. In the case of questions, they are placed on the questioned element, and in verbal sentences their placement and abundance relying on word order. Specifiers do not occur on certain negatives, modal particles, honorifics, conjunctions, interjections, short answers, and certain verb suffixes. There are three derivational suffixes, -te , -va , and -ra, that are applied to

253-561: Is generally SVO but common constructions with verbal complements require SOV or OSV. Some Romance languages are SVO, but when the object is an enclitic pronoun, word order allows for SOV (see the examples below). German and Dutch are considered SVO in conventional typology and SOV in generative grammar . They can be considered SOV but with V2 word order as an overriding rule for the finite verb in main clauses , which results in SVO in some cases and SOV in others. For example, in German,

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276-412: Is placed on both the first syllable and the syllable in the penultimate consonant. The rhythm of sentences is affected by the speaker; the two factors being tentative pauses and the application of metrical production rules. There are six contrastive patterns of intonation, and their contour can be described through prenuclear and nuclear contour and 4 levels of pitch; with 1 being the highest and 4 being

299-450: The -gE specifier to form compound noun phrases. Grass Koirari is a SOV (subject object verb) language, with the verb being the morphological reflector of the number of core arguments and postpositions being the reflector of the peripheral arguments. The basic structure is a subject argument , which must be explicitly stated, a subject pronoun at a minimum, and a verb . subjects precede objects and may be separated from each other and

322-495: The Papuan language equivalent of a paragraph . The participants in these chains are tracked using suffixes. SOV language In linguistic typology , a subject–object–verb ( SOV ) language is one in which the subject , object , and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order. If English were SOV, "Sam oranges ate" would be an ordinary sentence, as opposed to the actual Standard English "Sam ate oranges" which

345-406: The end of subordinate clauses. They have a weaker but significant tendency to place demonstrative adjectives before the nouns they modify. Relative clauses preceding the nouns to which they refer usually signals SOV word order, but the reverse does not hold: SOV languages feature prenominal and postnominal relative clauses roughly equally. SOV languages also seem to exhibit a tendency towards using

368-464: The language, although there are morphophonemic and metrical production rules present when suffixes are added. The morphophonemic rules are compulsory and are as follows: The metrical production rules are non-compulsory, circumstantial rules used to speakers discretion. Stress is phonemic but placement rules can vary from word to word. Verbs have different stressing rules compared to other word classes; they are stressed depending on whether they are

391-489: The lowest. Koiari specifiers act as a set of morphemes that draws focus to the constituents on which they occur, and that occur on the constituents only when certain conditions are met. Specifier forms can be singular or plural and be applied to declarative or question sentences. E represents a morphophoneme that is depending on the word class. The morphophoneme <rE> is applied to disyllabic nouns, proper nouns, possessive nouns, and some descriptive words; <varE>

414-548: The north-eastern portion of Port Moresby, others present in the headwaters of Hunter River and Musgrave River as well as in the Motu villages of Tubuseleia, Barakau, and Gaile. Koiari has two main dialects, the Western dialect and the Eastern dialect, which is also split into two sub-dialects, the north-eastern and south-eastern dialects. The dialects share phonology and vocabulary with

437-497: The predicate in clauses and must occur with a subject; a verb alone cannot serve as a sentence. Inflection occurs more commonly on verbs than any other word class. Inflection manifests as a suffix, and verbal inflection suffixes depend on the position of the verb; medial position, which relates the preceding and following clauses, or final position, which indicates tenses and numbers. In Grass Koiari, noun phrases are simple, complex or compound. Simple noun phrases are created by adding

460-664: The properties: for example, the Finnish language (high usage of postpositions etc.) The Ethio-Semitic , Cushitic and Omotic languages generally exhibit SOV order. ተስፋዬ Täsəfayē Tesfaye Subject በሩን bärun the door Object ዘጋው zägaw closed Verb ተስፋዬ በሩን ዘጋው Täsəfayē bärun zägaw Tesfaye {the door} closed Subject Object Verb Tesfaye closed the door. Ayyantu Ayantu Subject buna coffee Object dhugti drinks Verb Ayyantu buna dhugti Ayantu coffee drinks Subject Object Verb Ayantu drinks coffee. Somali generally uses

483-470: The roots of verbs to synthesize new roots that express states. Word classes are divided in Grass Koiari into verbs and non-verbs. Non-verbs are then divided further into categories such as nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc. The division between verbs and non-verbs is based on formal grounds, rather than semantic grounds. Verbs are morphologically the most complex constituents in Grass Koiari. They function as

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506-475: The title KBK . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KBK&oldid=1009424286 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Grass Koiari language Most speakers are located in

529-640: The verb by peripheral arguments and other constituents such as negatives and modals which have locations they need to be in Subjects precede objects , and peripheral arguments and other constituents, such as modals and negatives may separate them from both the verb and each other. The peripheral arguments and constituents are usually placed in certain favored locations in the clause. There are two types of clauses in grass koiari and are differentiated by their ability to stand alone as self-contained structures. Clauses can be connected together to form long chains,

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