Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Tables XIX
5. List of Figures XXI
6. Abbreviations and Symbols XXIII
7. Part I: Introduction and Preliminaries
8. 1 Introduction 1
9. 2 Phonology 19
10. 3 Words and Formatives 81
11. Part II: Nouns and Their Projections
12. 4 Nouns and Their Morphology 103
13. 5 Nominal Modifiers 147
14. 6 Postpositions and Relational Nouns 199
15. 7 Adverbs and Adverbial Particles 223
16. Part III: Verbs and Statives
17. 8 Verb Classes 239
18. 9 Non-verbal Predicates 263
19. 10 Verbal Derivation 269
20. 11 Alignment and Number 289
21. 12 Aspect, Mood, and Modality 321
22. 13 Voice and Other Argument-Event Relationships 359
23. 14 Valency Increasing 383
24. 15 The Verbal Template and Affix Ordering 407
25. Part IV: Sentence Structure
26. 16 The Basic Clause 431
27. 17 Negation 445
28. 18 Interrogative Clauses 457
29. 19 Topic and Focus 467
30. Part V: Complex Structures
31. 20 Complex Predicates I: Noun Incorporation 473
32. 21 Complex Predicates II: Verb Serialization 493
33. 22 Complex Predicates III: Dependent Verbs 525
34. 23 Complement Clauses 597
35. 24 Relative Clauses 625
36. 25 Adverbial and Conditional Clauses 635
37. 26 Secondary Predication 653
38. 27 Coordination 661
39. Part VI: Conclusion
40. 28 Conclusion 675
41. 29 Text 685
42. 30 Text Corpus and Coding Guide 697
43. Bibliography 701