Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xiii
4. List of abbreviations xv
5. List of tables, maps and figures xvii
6. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 2. Phonology 19
8. Chapter 3. Word classes and other categories 35
9. Chapter 4. Nouns 57
10. Chapter 5. Noun classifiers 81
11. Chapter 6. Number 101
12. Chapter 7. Verbs 115
13. Chapter 8. Person and experience 147
14. Chapter 9. Perception and cognition 161
15. Chapter 10. Possession and association 177
16. Chapter 11. Word order, case and pragmatics 189
17. Chapter 12. Location and spatial orientation 207
18. Chapter 13. Clause types and constituents 223
19. Chapter 14. Questions and negations 239
20. Chapter 15. Discourse, genre and ways of speaking 247
21. Chapter 16. Multilingualism and language ideology 269
22. References 281
23. Index 289