Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xi
5. Romanization and text presentation xiii
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
8. Chapter 2. Writing system 21
9. Chapter 3. Sounds 28
10. Chapter 4. Words 40
11. Chapter 5. Morphology 66
12. Chapter 6. Morphology-syntax interface 95
13. Chapter 7. Argument structures 100
14. Chapter 8. Noun phrase and verb phrase constructions 129
15. Chapter 9. Grammatical constructions 152
16. Chapter 10. Expanded sentences 181
17. Chapter 11. Sentence and information structure 207
18. Chapter 12. Discourse and grammar 227
19. Chapter 13. Pragmatics and grammar 254
20. Chapter 14. Sample texts 273
21. Appendixes 283
22. References 286
23. Index 292