Editing Choctaw language (section)

===Word order and case marking===
:The simplest sentences in Choctaw consist of a verb and a tense marker, as in the following examples:<ref>Broadwell (2006:32)</ref>

{{interlinear
| lang = cho
| indent = 2
| top = {{lang|cho|O̱batok.}}|O̱ba -tok|rain -PT|'It rained.'
}}

{{interlinear
| lang = cho
| indent = 2
| top = {{lang|cho|Niyah.}}|niya -h|fat -TNS|'She/he/it is fat, they are fat.'
}}

{{interlinear
| lang = cho
| indent = 2
| top = {{lang|cho|Pi̱satok.}}|Pi̱sa- tok|see{{angbr|{{gcl|NGR|n-grade}}}} -PT|'She/he/it/they saw her/him/it/them.'
}}

:As these examples show, there are no obligatory noun phrases in a Choctaw sentence, nor is there any verbal agreement that indicates a third person subject or object. There is no indication of grammatical gender, and for third person arguments there is no indication of number. (There are, however, some verbs with suppletive forms that indicate the number of a subject or object, e.g. iyah 'to go (sg.)', ittiyaachih 'to go (du.)', and ilhkolih 'to go (pl)'.)

When there is an overt subject, it is obligatorily marked with the nominative case /-at/. Subjects precede the verb

{{interlinear
| lang = cho
| indent = 2
| top = {{lang|cho|Hoshiyat apatok.}}|hoshi -at apa -tok|bird -NOM eat -PT|'The birds ate them.'
}}

When there is an overt object, it is optionally marked with the accusative case /-a̱/

{{interlinear
| lang = cho
| indent = 2
| top = {{lang|cho|Hoshiyat sho̱shi(-ya̱) apatok.}}|hoshi -at sho̱shi (-a̱) apa -tok.|bird -NOM bug -(ACC) eat -PT|'The birds ate the bugs.'
}}

The Choctaw sentence is normally verb-final, and so the head of the sentence is last.

Some other phrases in Choctaw also have their head at the end. Possessors precede the possessed noun in the Noun Phrase:

{{interlinear
| lang = cho
| indent = 2|ofi hohchifo|dog name|'the dog's name'
}}

Choctaw has postpositional phrases with the postposition after its object:

{{interlinear
| lang = cho
| indent = 2|tamaaha bili̱ka|town near|'near a town'
}}