Koro is a largely isolating,
head-marking, SVO language. It displays
nominative–accusative alignment, with a distinction between singular,
dual, and
plural number in pronouns. Like many other Oceanic languages, Koro morpho-syntactically distinguishes between
inalienable and alienable possession, where inalienable nouns are vowel-final, whereas alienable nouns may be consonant final, and alienable nouns but not inalienable nouns require a possessive particle
ta when used in possessive constructions. There is an
animacy distinction in subject pronouns. Koro uses seven sets of numeral
classifiers, some of which can be used referentially (without a noun, as in the use of
timou "one (people)" to refer to an individual person). The forms for "seven", "eight", and "nine" are based on subtraction from ten, as with other Eastern Admiralties languages. ==References==