List of Tables xxxv
List of Figures xxxviii
List of Maps xxxix
List of Abbreviations xl
Acknowledgments xliii
Preface xlvi
I Background
1 About this grammar 2
2 About Upper Tanana 13
3 Dialects 23
4 Some cultural background 34
II Phonology
5 Consonants 42
6 Vowels 59
7 Tone 72
8 A historical perspective on the sound system 85
9 Stem-initial fricative lenition 105
10 Syllable structure 119
11 Light and heavy stems 131
12 The practical orthography 136
13 Nouns 146
14 Verbs 168
15 Free postpositions 173
16 Adverbs 211
17 Directionals 224
18 Adjectives and modifiers 263
19 Pronouns 275
20 Numerals 289
21 Other minor word categories 302
IV Morphology
22 Possessor inflection 316
23 Inflection of postpositions 342
24 Verbal morphology: An overview 352
25 Verb theme categories 362
26 Verb stem 392
27 Voice/valence markers 409
28 Subject marking 432
29 Conjugation and mode prefixes 444
30 Qualifiers 462
31 Pronominal prefixes 488
32 Distributive prefix 524
33 Incorporated roots 531
34 Iterative prefix 562
35 Adverbial-derivational prefixes 572
36 Bound postpositions 616
37 Verbal suffixes 631
References