Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations, symbols and conventions -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonetics and phonology -- 3. Nouns -- 4. Dynamic verbs -- 5. Stative verbs -- 6. Adjectives -- 7. Other word classes -- 8. Possession -- 9. Noun phrases -- 10. Copula, verbless and existential clauses -- 11. Verbal main clauses -- 12. Clause embedding and coordination -- 13. Adverbial clauses -- 14. Word formation -- 15. Lexicon -- Text 1 -- Text 2 -- References -- Index