| List of figures | p. x |
| List of tables | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| A note on transcriptions | p. xvi |
| List of abbreviations | p. xvii |
| Introduction to morphology and syntax | p. 1 |
| The form-function composite | p. 3 |
| Creativity and recursion | p. 5 |
| Grammar | p. 7 |
| Morphology and syntax | p. 7 |
| Lexicon | p. 9 |
| Three expression types compared | p. 11 |
| Subtypes of lexical expression | p. 12 |
| Classes in the lexicon | p. 14 |
| Some basic concepts in morphology | p. 16 |
| Introduction to the exercises | p. 20 |
| Conceptual outline of chapter 1 | p. 25 |
| Exercises | p. 26 |
| Morphological processes and conceptual categories | p. 32 |
| Conceptual categories and the problem of labeling | p. 32 |
| The "big ten" morphological processes | p. 40 |
| Methods for representing morphological processes | p. 45 |
| Conceptual outline of chapter 2 | p. 54 |
| Exercises | p. 55 |
| Morphophonemics | p. 63 |
| Specifying the environments for morphophonemic rules | p. 67 |
| How to pick an underlying form | p. 70 |
| Rule ordering | p. 73 |
| Nasal assimilation in English | p. 75 |
| Types of morphophonemic rules | p. 78 |
| Possession in Asheninka | p. 81 |
| Summary of notational conventions | p. 83 |
| Conceptual outline of chapter 3 | p. 85 |
| Exercises | p. 85 |
| Word classes | p. 93 |
| Nouns | p. 94 |
| Verbs | p. 104 |
| Adjectives | p. 116 |
| Adverbs | p. 117 |
| Other word classes | p. 118 |
| Conceptual outline of Chapter 4 | p. 126 |
| Exercises | p. 127 |
| Exploring subclasses | p. 133 |
| Methodology | p. 134 |
| Conceptual outline of Chapter 5 | p. 144 |
| Exercises | p. 144 |
| Constituent structure | p. 152 |
| A note about syntactic formalisms | p. 152 |
| Syntax | p. 153 |
| Tests for constituent structure | p. 158 |
| Phrase structure rules | p. 165 |
| Constituent structure trees | p. 166 |
| Ambiguity | p. 180 |
| Conceptual outline of chapter 6 | p. 182 |
| Exercises | p. 183 |
| Language typology | p. 189 |
| Morphological typology | p. 190 |
| Syntactic typology | p. 191 |
| Examples of an OV and a VO language | p. 194 |
| Pragmatic constituent order languages | p. 198 |
| How to analyze the syntactic typology of a language | p. 202 |
| Conceptual outline of chapter 7 | p. 204 |
| Exercises | p. 204 |
| Grammatical relations | p. 210 |
| Grammatical relations within noun phrases | p. 211 |
| Grammatical relations in clauses | p. 212 |
| Systems for organizing grammatical relations | p. 216 |
| Analyzing grammatical relations systems | p. 221 |
| Split systems | p. 223 |
| Conceptual outline of chapter 8 | p. 229 |
| Exercises | p. 229 |
| Voice and valence | p. 237 |
| Valence-decreasing constructions | p. 241 |
| Valence-increasing constructions | p. 258 |
| Combinations of valence-related constructions | p. 272 |
| Conceptual outline of chapter 9 | p. 275 |
| Exercises | p. 277 |
| Multi-clause constructions | p. 288 |
| Serial verbs | p. 288 |
| Complement clauses | p. 289 |
| Adverbial clauses | p. 295 |
| Clause chains and switch-reference | p. 298 |
| Relative clauses | p. 299 |
| Coordination | p. 307 |
| Conceptual outline of chapter 10 | p. 310 |
| Exercises | p. 311 |
| Glossary | p. 320 |
| References | p. 349 |
| Subject and language index | p. 357 |
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