Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of tables, figures and maps -- Abbreviations and conventions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phonology -- 3 Nouns and the noun phrase -- 4 Nominal classification -- 5 Verbs and the structure of the predicate -- 6 Adverbials -- 7 Particles -- 8 Clauses -- Appendix: Text collection -- References -- Index