Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Table of contents IX
4. List of tables and figures XXI
5. Abbreviations XXV
6. Part I: Introduction
7. 1 The language and its speakers 1
8. Part II: The sound system
9. 2 Phonology 35
10. 3 Morphophonemics 69
11. Part III: Word structure and word classes
12. 4 Word structure 94
13. 5 Word classes 116
14. Part IV: The verb
15. 6 Verbal predicate structure 154
16. 7 Verb classes 189
17. 8 Verbal categories 214
18. 9 Valence-adjusting mechanisms 274
19. Part V: The noun
20. 10 Noun classes and nominal categories 321
21. 11 Noun phrase syntax 368
22. Part VI: Word formation
23. 12 Word formation 385
24. Part VII: Main clause structure
25. 13 Syntactic functions and word order 440
26. Part VIII: Special sentence types
27. 14 Speech act distinctions 478
28. 15 Negation 516
29. Part IX: Complex constructions
30. 16 Clause linking 536
31. Part X: Information structure
32. 17 Topic, focus, and emphasis 603
33. References 641
34. Appendix A. Grammatical morphemes 657
35. Appendix B. Noun categorization devices 660
36. Appendix C. Ideophones 663
37. Appendix D. Text samples 668
38. Index 677