Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations and typographical conventions -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Phonology -- Chapter 3. Morphological marking of syntactic organization -- Chapter 4. Lexical categories and morphological processes -- Chapter 5. Noun phrase -- Chapter 6. Verbal roots and stems -- Chapter 7. Grammatical relations -- Chapter 8. Verbal extensions and semantic relations -- Chapter 9. Locative extensions -- Chapter 10. Locative predication -- Chapter 11. Verbless predications -- Chapter 12. Adjunct phrases -- Chapter 13. Aspect -- Chapter 14. Tense -- Chapter 15. Mood -- Chapter 16. Negation -- Chapter 17. Interrogative -- Chapter 18. Comment clause -- Chapter 19. Topicalization -- Chapter 20. Focus -- Chapter 21. Reference system -- Chapter 22. Paratactic and sequential clauses -- Chapter 23. Complementation -- Chapter 24. Conditional and temporal sentences -- Chapter 25. Adjunct clauses -- Chapter 26. The relative clause -- Chapter 27. Discourse characteristics -- Chapter 28. Sample texts -- References -- Index