A pronominal possessor does not occur as a suffix but rather a free form. Morphology There are only a few forms of verbal morphology in Xârâcùù. These include the nonproductive transitive suffix –ri, the causative fa-, the resultative/stative mê-, and the intransitivizer ù-. While transitive suffix do exist they are few and far between leaving the language to follow a strict SVO format for morphological marking. Verb phrases The examples also show that the object of a sentence can be topicalized by fronting the transitive suffix as in vèè a- moving to the front of the sentence in example two. There is also reduplication, which acts like a functions intensifier. While there is a small amount of verbal morphology, each verb phrase can contain a preverbal subject-marking pronoun. Subject and Predicate phrase order is unmarked in Xarâcùù. There are ten tense-aspect markers (some are preverbal others postverbal) and one or more modifiers can be included (also pre-verbal or post-verbal). As seen above in example (1), preverbal subject markers are unused if the subject is a noun phrase. But there are cases when there is a topicalized afterthought subject that follows the verb as seen in the second example where pa dopwa appears at the end rather than the beginning. Polar interrogatives also exist in Xarâcùù but are marked by the particle kae. The kae article follows the constituent that is the focus of the interrogation. In comparison to many other Oceanic languages outside of New Caledonia, Xarâcùù uses unusual phrase structure for nouns. The modifiers precede the head and the only thing that follows are demonstratives and markers of totality. Sample texts Various Xârâcùù stories were recorded by Claire Moyse-Faurie. They can be read and heard, on two archives: on Paradisec, and on Pangloss. Sample sentences Dou regula daa nä jina. -All because of that fateful day. è wâ ket name: "wèi, jööpè nä, jè faxwata. -He asked for news è cen xwata döbwa ke ket. -She would not listen to what you said. Story of a flower A traditional Xârâcùù short story about a flower and a girl who speaks with the flower and hear its life story. A small poem about the sky and the land of Canala Jari kè Xôkwé Ka History A historical tale about a taro field and those who tended it. Documentation There have been two dictionaries written on the Xârâcùù language in the