Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of figures XIX
5. List of tables XXI
6. Abbreviations XXIII
7. Glossing conventions XXV
8. Chapter 1 Introduction 1
9. Chapter 2 Language background and sociolinguistic context 32
10. Chapter 3 Phonology 68
11. Chapter 4 Nouns and noun phrase structure 99
12. Chapter 5 Noun class, number and possession 154
13. Chapter 6 Verbs and the verb complex 228
14. Chapter 7 Tense, aspect, mode and negation 314
15. Chapter 8 Obliques, adjuncts and clause-level adverbs 356
16. Chapter 9 Clause types and structures 391
17. Chapter 10 Complex sentences 441
18. References 509
19. Appendix 1 Pronominal paradigms 521
20. Appendix 2 25 demonstrative scenes (Wilkins 1999) 523
21. Index 527