Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents XI
4. Conventions and abbreviations XVIII
5. 1. The Tayap language and its speakers 1
6. 2. Phonology and orthography 27
7. 3. Word classes 49
8. 4. Noun phrases: Structure, modifiers, case marking and possession 105
9. 5. Basic verb morphology 136
10. 6. The formation of realis and irrealis verbs 163
11. 7. Mood 200
12. 8. Complex predicates 229
13. 9. Simple and complex sentences 250
14. Tayap Texts 290
15. Tayap-English-Tok Pisin Dictionary 337
16. English-Tayap finder list 455
17. Appendix 1. English translation of Georg Höltker 1938. Eine fragmentarische Wörterliste der Gapún-Sprache Newguineas. Anthropos 33: 279–82 482
18. Appendix 2. Two photographs of Gapun village taken in 1937 by Georg Höltker 487
19. References 489
20. Index 493