Table of contents
Foreword
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introductory notes
Chapter 2. Bound and free complexes
Chapter 3. Free and bound word variants
Chapter 4. Morphological and syntactic complexes: Attributive and object complexes
Chapter 5. Extended morphological complexes
Chapter 6. Personal and reflexive pronouns
Chapter 7. Basic rules of alternation of plosives and fricatives
Chapter 8. Special types of alternations
Chapter 9. The problem of incorporation
Chapter 10. The direct object + verb complex: Alternation of initial consonants in transitives
Chapter 11. The attribute + noun complex: Alternation of initial consonants of nouns and verbs in attributive position
Chapter 12. The verbal finite predicate
Chapter 13. The nominal predicate
Chapter 14. Converbs
Chapter 15. Coordination of homogeneous predicates
Chapter 16. The noun
Chapter 17. Future tense markers in verbal forms
Chapter 18. The adverb
Chapter 19. Ideophones (imitative words)
Chapter 20. Analytical and grammaticalized verbal constructions with auxiliary and semi-auxiliary words: Compound verbs
Chapter 21. The main classes of verbal grammatical morphemes
Chapter 22. Group A. Verbal suffixes taking the same position in the morphological verb structure as the finite suffix -d̦/-ţ
Chapter 23. Group B. Verbal suffixes, particles and auxiliary words post-posed to the finite suffix -d̦/-ţ
Chapter 24. Group C. Verbal suffixes pre-posed to Group A suffixes
Chapter 25. Syntactic (valency) classes of verbs
Chapter 26. Semantic classes of verbs
Chapter 27. Sentence word order
Chapter 28. Means of introducing direct speech
Chapter 29. Means of expressing indirect speech
Chapter 30. The imperceptive marker – particle -furu /-p‘uru/-vuru
Chapter 31. Two-predicate constructions
Chapter 32. Causative constructions formed by verbs with the suffix -ku/-γu-/-gu-/-xu-
Chapter 33. Relative clauses
Chapter 34. Relative clauses without a head word
Chapter 35. The structure of a narrative text
Chapter 36. Aspectual and taxis characteristics of converbs
References
List of publications on Nivkh Grammar by V.P. Nedjalkov and G.A. Otaina
Name index
Language index
Subject index
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