Frontmatter -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Background information -- 2 Phonetics and phonology -- 3 Architecture of the word -- 4 Nouns and the noun phrase -- 5 Verbs and the verb group -- 6 Basic clause structure -- 7 Clause combining -- Appendix A: Glossing conventions -- Appendix B: Cited texts -- Appendix C: Speakers -- Appendix D: Sample interlinearized text -- References -- Index