Preface and Acknowledgements List of Tables, Maps, and Figures Abbreviations and Symbols 1 Introduction 1.1 The Makú 1.2 Language Contacts 1.3 Previous Work and Sources 1.4 Attrition Phenomena in Kuluta's Idiolect and Calques Produced by Elicitation 1.5 Aim and Organization of the Book2 Phonology 2.1 Phonological Variation 2.2 Phonotactics 2.

3 Stress 2.4 Phonological Processes 2.5 Deletion and Contraction Processes in Spontaneous/Fast Speech3 Word Classes 3.1 Property Concept Words as Verbs 3.2 Nouns 3.3 Pronouns 3.4 Quantifiers 3.5 Verbs 3.

6 Adverbs 3.7 Conjunctions, Interjections, Ideophones, and Particles4 Morphology 4.1 Inflectional Morphology 4.2 Word-Formation Processes5 Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Evidentiality 5.1 Tense 5.2 Aspect 5.3 Mood 5.4 Evidentiality6 Syntax 6.

1 Noun Phrases 6.2 Verb Phrases 6.3 Declarative Clauses 6.4 Imperative Clauses 6.5 Interrogative Clauses 6.6 Exclamatory Clauses 6.7 Complex Sentences 6.8 Discourse Phenomena7 Issues in Semantics 7.

1 Nouns 7.2 Personal Pronouns 7.3 Stative Verbs 7.4 Non-Stative Verbs 7.5 Adverbs of Time8 Texts 8.1 The Opossum and the Turtle--Version A 8.2 The Opossum and the Turtle--Version B 8.3 The Opossum and the Turtle--Version C 8.

4 The Manioc--Version A 8.5 The Manioc--Version B 8.6 The Manioc--Version C 8.7 The Manioc--Version D 8.8 The Wood Stork 8.9 Bucha and Makunaima 8.10 The Water 8.11 The Stone 8.

12 When I Was Small 8.13 My Wedding 8.14 Future Plans 8.15 Other Plans 8.16 Survival Tasks 8.17 Valéria's Illness 8.18 Our Garden9 Vocabulary 9.1 Makú-English Vocabulary 9.

2 English-Makú Finder List References Index of Authors, Languages, and Subjects.