Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of authors -- Maps -- Genetic classification of languages examined or referred to -- 1 Mermaid construction: An introduction and summary -- I. SOV languages -- 2 Modern Standard Japanese -- 3 Mitsukaido dialect of Japanese -- 4 Old and Early Middle Japanese -- 5 Irabu Ryukyuan -- 6 Korean -- 7 Kolyma Yukaghir -- 8 Sakha (Yakut) -- 9 Khalkha Mongolian -- 10 Amdo Tibetan -- 11 nDrapa -- 12 Kathmandu Newar -- 13 Burmese -- 14 Kurux -- 15 Hindi -- 16 Sidaama -- II. SVO languages -- 17 Thai -- III. VSO/VOS languages -- 18 Tagalog -- IV Languages in which the order of S, O and V is not fixed -- 19 Koryak -- Index of names -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects