Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Conventions and abbreviations -- 1. The Tayap language and its speakers -- 2. Phonology and orthography -- 3. Word classes -- 4. Noun phrases: Structure, modifiers, case marking and possession -- 5. Basic verb morphology -- 6. The formation of realis and irrealis verbs -- 7. Mood -- 8. Complex predicates -- 9. Simple and complex sentences -- Tayap Texts -- Tayap-English-Tok Pisin Dictionary -- English-Tayap finder list -- Appendix 1. English translation of Georg Höltker 1938. Eine fragmentarische Wörterliste der Gapún-Sprache Newguineas. Anthropos 33: 279-82 -- Appendix 2. Two photographs of Gapun village taken in 1937 by Georg Höltker -- References -- Index