List of tables

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Table 1.1Consonant inventory

Table 1.2Vowel inventory

Table 1.3Nominal case system

Table 1.4Tense-mood suffixes (based on Thompson 1988:31)

Table 1.5Language knowledge holders

Table 2.1The corpus

Table 3.1Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u kin-terms

Table 3.2Bereavement kin-terms

Table 3.3Human classificatory term system

Table 3.4Nickname examples

Table 3.5Dialect and affiliated speaker names derived
from verb ‘to eat’

Table 3.6Dialect and affiliated speaker names derived
from verb ‘to look’

Table 3.7Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u pronominal system

Table 3.8Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u demonstratives

Table 4.1Determiner groups

Table 4.2Person reference forms and determiners

Table 4.3Count of person effects in possessive determiner
slot selection

Table 5.1Count of form types employed as initial mentions
in the focused corpus

Table 5.2Number of coreferential NPs in an initial referring expression

Table 5.3Frequency of descriptive expressions as initial reference
in the focused corpus

Table 7.1Place transitions in the focused corpus narratives