Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- 1 The Kakataibo people and their language -- 2 Segmental phonology -- 3 Prosody -- 4 Introduction to morphology -- 5 Word classes -- 6 Nouns -- 7 Adjectives -- 8 Verbs (I): Verb classes -- 9 Verbs (II): Verbal morphology -- 10 Adverbs -- 11 Independent clauses -- 12 Switch-reference constructions -- 13 Reported speech and elaborative clauses -- 14 Grammatical nominalizations -- 15 Transitivity and grammatical relations -- 16 Sentences in narratives and conversations -- Appendix 1: Selection of Kakataibo texts -- Appendix 2: Swadesh list of 200 terms for the four extant dialects of Kakatataibo with English and Spanish translations -- Appendix 3: Tessmann's list of 237 terms for the four extant dialects of Kakatataibo with German and Spanish translations -- Appendix 4: Kakataibo textual database -- Appendix 5: Brief Kakataibo - English vocabulary -- Appendix 6: Index of Kakataibo grammatical morphemes -- Photographs -- References -- Index of subjects -- Index of persons