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MORPHOLOGY

Kiksht is a polysynthetic language and is also agglutinative in nature.

WORD ORDER

Kiksht is a verb initial language but within the verbal complex the order marking is SOV.

tc-           t-               a-            l-o’-        t              -a

he.SBJ- them.OBJ- her-2OBJ- to- DIR-    give -FUT

‘he will give them to her.’

Word order in Kiksht depends o the usage of the verb within an entire Kiksht sentence. One verb with all of it's morphological elements can represent the meaning of an entire English sentence. In Kiksht, there is a word order found in both the singular verb as well as the entire discourse of whatever is deemed as a Kiksht multiple or single-word sentence or utterance.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dyk, Walter (1933). A Grammar of Wishram.