Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of contents IX
4. Abbreviations XXIII
5. Chapter 1. The language and its speakers 1
6. Chapter 2. Phonology 19
7. Chapter 3. Word classes and grammatical relations 85
8. Chapter 4. Gender 169
9. Chapter 5. Classificatory verb prefixes 185
10. Chapter 6. The noun phrase 203
11. Chapter 7. The postpositional phrase 233
12. Chapter 8. Verb morphology 243
13. Chapter 9. Argument structure and the syntax of the clause 331
14. Chapter 10. Question formation 385
15. Chapter 11. Chaining constructions 405
16. Chapter 12. Operator scope in clause chaining constructions 471
17. Chapter 13. Embedding 485
18. Appendix I. Texts 515
19. Appendix II. Mian-English wordlist 545
20. Notes 579
21. References 585
22. Index 597