• morphologically motivated pitch accents in verbal forms
• SOV
• switch-reference marking system
Reduplication Form-Function
• penultimate syllable -CV(C)- (with and without fixed segmentism): continuous repetition, i.e. iterative reduplication (pluralization)
• initial syllable -CV(C)- (with and without fixed segmentism): punctual repetition (pluralization)
Relationship Form-Function
various forms - various functions
Reduplication System
the verb roots that permit reduplication are quite limited: generally they are of the form CVCVCli, CVCVCka, CVCVCki, CVCli, CVCka or CVCVCbi, of which the CVCVCli/CVCli and CVCVCka/CVCka pairs frequently mark a singular/plural meaning distinction, e.g. tipáslin "to pick something off"/típlin "to pick many things off" (cf. Kimball 1988: 431-432)
Productivity
reduplication is a now unproductive morphological process in Koasati (cf. Kimball 1988: 431, 435)
Stylistic Information
many verbs formed by iterative reduplication are used only for humorous effect (see Kimball 1988: 434)
Comments
verbal forms cited from Kimball (1988) are glossed as infinitives but are actually third person indicative forms followed by the switch of reference suffix -n (cf. Kimball 1988: 441 fn. 2)
Terminology