Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Maps -- 1 Introduction to the Aguaruna language -- 2 Cultural and historical context -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Morphology of nouns, adjectives and pronouns -- 5 The noun phrase -- 6 The verb -- 7 Grammatical relations and transitivity -- 8 Tense, aspect and person in finite verbs -- 9 Mood and modality -- 10 Questions -- 11 Negation -- 12 Adverbial words -- 13 Subordinate clauses -- 14 Clause chaining and clause combining -- 15 Nominalization -- 16 Relative clauses -- 17 Speech reports and complement clauses -- 18 Discourse organization -- Text 1: A man is eaten by a boa -- Text 2: Extracts from Pablo's autobiography -- Text 3: Hunting -- References -- Index