Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of North American families, languages, and dialects -- Maps -- I Sounds and sound structure -- 1 Acoustic phonetics -- 2 Articulatory phonetics -- 3 Tone -- 4 Segmental phonology -- 5 Prosodic morphology -- 6 Word prosody -- 7 Prosody beyond the word -- II Words -- 8 What is a word? -- 9 Word classes -- III Sentences -- 10 Syntax within the clause -- 11 Negatives -- 12 Questions and requests in North American languages -- 13 Information structure -- 14 Clause-combining: Relative clauses -- 15 Clause combining: Syntax of subordination and complementation -- 16 Switch-reference and event cohesion -- IV Discourse -- 17 Verbal art -- 18 Conversation structure -- V Meaning -- 19 Lexicalization and lexical meaning -- 20 Lexicography -- 21 Evidentiality -- 22 Pluractionality and distributivity -- 23 Mass and count nouns -- 24 Sense of place: Space, landscape, and orientation -- 25 A sense of time and world -- 26 Pragmatics -- VI Languages over space and time -- 27 Languages as dynamic systems: How grammar can emerge -- 28 Language contact and linguistic areas -- 29 Language classification -- 30 Archival-based sociolinguistic variation -- 31 Community-based sociolinguistic variation