0. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. I-XII I
2. 0. Introduction 1
3. 1. Phonology and orthography 7
4. 2. Grammatical categories 19
5. 3. Adverbials of place and direction 64
6. 4. Postpositions and Postposition-Movement 67
7. 5. Derivation of nouns 69
8. 6. Taxonomy of things designated by nouns 72
9. 7. Miscellaneous notes on semantics 77
10. 8. The parts of dictionary entries 79
11. 9. Totems 86
12. 10. Human classification and the kinship system 89
13. 11. The respect register and its special vocabulary 103
14. 12. Selected domain lists: plants, birds, quantity terms. 107
15. 13. Specialized English usages 117
16. Notes 119
17. Yir-Yoront-to-English dictionary. A-L 125
18. Yir-Yoront-to-English dictionary. M-Z 267
19. Index 695
20. References 783
21. 796 796