Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of glossing abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Orthographies -- 5 Nouns -- 6 Classifiers and numerals -- 7 Deictic forms -- 8 Complex nominal constructions -- 9 Clauses -- 10 Verbs -- 11 Expressive forms -- 12 Multiverbal constructions -- Text 1 Oub Meinl Yaos Geud -- Text 2 Tooth conversation -- References -- Index