18 Discourse organization

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. Abbreviations and conventions xix
5. Maps xxv
6. 1 Introduction to the Aguaruna language 1
7. 2 Cultural and historical context 21
8. 3 Phonology 39
9. 4 Morphology of nouns, adjectives and pronouns 127
10. 5 The noun phrase 205
11. 6 The verb 233
12. 7 Grammatical relations and transitivity 267
13. 8 Tense, aspect and person in finite verbs 323
14. 9 Mood and modality 371
15. 10 Questions 385
16. 11 Negation 403
17. 12 Adverbial words 411
18. 13 Subordinate clauses 435
19. 14 Clause chaining and clause combining 483
20. 15 Nominalization 503
21. 16 Relative clauses 543
22. 17 Speech reports and complement clauses 553
23. 18 Discourse organization 577
24. Text 1: A man is eaten by a boa 595
25. Text 2: Extracts from Pablo’s autobiography 606
26. Text 3: Hunting 615
27. References 621
28. Index 629