Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Glossing conventions -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Language background and sociolinguistic context -- Chapter 3 Phonology -- Chapter 4 Nouns and noun phrase structure -- Chapter 5 Noun class, number and possession -- Chapter 6 Verbs and the verb complex -- Chapter 7 Tense, aspect, mode and negation -- Chapter 8 Obliques, adjuncts and clause-level adverbs -- Chapter 9 Clause types and structures -- Chapter 10 Complex sentences -- References -- Appendix 1 Pronominal paradigms -- Appendix 2 25 demonstrative scenes (Wilkins 1999) -- Index