Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Conventions, abbreviations and symbols used -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Phonemic inventory -- Chapter 3: Prosody -- Chapter 4: Word categories -- Chapter 5: Some remarks on semantics -- Chapter 6: The noun class system -- Chapter 7: Verbal morphology -- Chapter 8: Derivational morphology -- Chapter 9: Compounding -- Chapter 10: Phrase-level syntax -- Chapter 11: Clause-level syntax -- Chapter 12: Subordination and coordination -- Chapter 13: Discourse and pragmatics -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Index