2 The character of the language

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XIII
4. List of Figures XIX
5. List of Tables XXI
6. Conventions XXVII
7. 1 Introduction: The language and its speakers 1
8. Part I: The Grammar
9. 2 The character of the language 27
10. 3 Phonology 42
11. 4 The lexicon: Morphemes, lexemes and parts of speech 78
12. 5 The noun phrase 138
13. 6 The verb complex 167
14. 7 The simple clause 253
15. 8 Complex sentences 372
16. 9 Yélî Dnye as a syntactically ergative language 483
17. 10 Negation – an overview 495
18. Part II: Topics in semantics and language use
19. 11 Lexical fields 509
20. 12 Taboo ‘languages’, special vocabularies and registers of Yélî Dnye 548
21. Appendix I Places of major locations 563
22. Appendix II Sample text 565
23. Bibliography 573
24. Index 583