CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. SPEECH VARIATIONS AND DIACHRONIC PROCESSES -- 2. SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES AND BASIC SENTENCE STRUCTURE -- 3. CONJOINED SENTENCES -- 4. COMPLEX SENTENCES -- 5. THE VERB MORPHOLOGY -- 6. CLASSIFIERS AND THEME TYPES -- 7. THEMATIC PREFIXES, ADVERBIALS, AND POSTPOSITIONAL CONSTRUCTIONS -- 8. PERSON CATEGORIES AND PRONOMINAL PREFIXES -- 9. ASPECT PREFIXES -- 10. VERB STEM INFLECTION -- 11. STEM INITIAL AND PREFIX PHONOLOGY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.