14 The copulas

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. List of tables xx
5. List of figures xxiii
6. List of abbreviations xxiv
7. 1 Preliminaries 1
8. 2 Phonetics and phonology 62
9. 3 Morphophonology 131
10. 4 Nouns and nominal morphology 163
11. 5 Pronouns and demonstratives 245
12. 6 Adjectives 284
13. 7 Quantifiers 300
14. 8 The structure of the noun phrase 315
15. 9 Discourse clitics and discourse particles 323
16. 10 Interjections, terms of address, and conventionalized communicative expressions 343
17. 11 Adverbs 348
18. 12 Verbs 359
19. 13 Epistemic marking and syntactic agreement 447
20. 14 The copulas 507
21. 15 Finite inflection 541
22. 16 The clause 584
23. 17 Grammatical relations 620
24. 18 Nondeclarative speech acts 652
25. 19 Combined clauses 661
26. 20 Appendix A: Texts 711
27. 21 Appendix B: Bunan word list 730
28. References 757
29. Index 769