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Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Demographic andethnographic information; 2. Morphological typology; 3. Grammaticalcategories; 4. Constituent order typology; 5. Noun and noun-phraseoperations; 6. Predicate nominals and related constructions; 7. Grammaticalrelations; 8. Voice and valence adjusting operations; 9. Other verb andveb-phrase operations; 10. Pragmatically marked structures; 11. Clausecombinations; 12. Conclusions: the language in use; Appendices; References;Index of languages, language families, and language areas; Subject index.