List of figures
List of tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface to volume 2
Acknowledgments
- Introduction to volume 2
I Semantics
- Semantic properties of nouns
- Noun classification
- Lexical semantics
- Tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality
- Lexical aspect: verb theme categories
- Inflectional aspect
- The modal system (inflection)
- Modal particles
II The simple clause
- Word order overview
- Word order in simple clauses
- Nonverbal predicates
- Polar Questions
- Content questions
- Requests
- Negation
- Third-person marking
- Pronominal number marking
- The noun phrase
- Non-clausal coordination
- Quantification of entities
- Comparison
- Prosodic augmentation
III Beyond the clause
- Coordination of clauses
- Relative clauses
- Adverbial clauses
27 Verbs with clausal complements
- Quotative frames
- Addressing individuals
- Managing information structure
- Insubordination
Appendix I: Portmanteau morphemes in the conjunct zone
Glossed sample texts
Bibliography