Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. The language and its speakers -- Chapter 2. Phonology -- Chapter 3. Word classes and grammatical relations -- Chapter 4. Gender -- Chapter 5. Classificatory verb prefixes -- Chapter 6. The noun phrase -- Chapter 7. The postpositional phrase -- Chapter 8. Verb morphology -- Chapter 9. Argument structure and the syntax of the clause -- Chapter 10. Question formation -- Chapter 11. Chaining constructions -- Chapter 12. Operator scope in clause chaining constructions -- Chapter 13. Embedding -- Appendix I. Texts -- Appendix II. Mian-English wordlist -- Notes -- References -- Index