Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Glossing conventions -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sound change, reconstruction, and subgrouping -- 3 Vowel elision, rendaku, and assimilations -- 4 Lexicon -- 5 Nominals -- 6 Adjectives and adjectival verbs -- 7 Verbs -- 8 Adverbs -- 9 Conjunctions -- 10 Particles -- Appendix A - A classification of poems in MYS Book 14 based on linguistic features -- References -- Index