Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Hup and its speakers -- Chapter 2 Phonology -- Chapter 3 The architecture of the word: parts of -- speech and formatives -- Chapter 4 The noun and nominal morphology -- Chapter 5 The complex noun: compounding, -- possession, and noun classification -- Chapter 6 The noun phrase: modification and -- definiteness -- Chapter 7 Nominal discourse-marking -- morphology -- Chapter 8 The verb word -- Chapter 9 The compound verb -- Chapter 10 Adjectives and adverbial -- expressions -- Chapter 11 Adjusting valency -- Chapter 12 Aspect -- Chapter 13 Tense and related forms -- Chapter 14 Modality and evidentiality -- Chapter 15 Sentence-level affect marking -- Chapter 16 Negation -- Chapter 17 Simple clauses -- Chapter 18 Clause combining -- Backmatter