Yir-Yoront Lexicon: Sketch and Dictionary of an Australian Language

Acknowledgements
Maps, Tables, and Figures
0. Introduction
0.1. The language and its speakers
0.2. Name and classification
0.3. Other literature
1. Phonology and orthography
1.1. The sounds of Yir-Yoront
1.2. Morphophonemics
1.3. Questions of spelling
2. Grammatical categories
2.1. Parts of speech defined by morphology
2.2. Parts of speech defined by syntactic function
2.3. The problem of adjectives and adverbs
2.4. Inflection of nouns
2.5. Pronouns
2.6. Inflection, serial compounding, and derivation of verbs
2.7. Notes on clausal and higher-level phenomena
3. Adverbials of place and direction
3.1. Single-word place and direction adverbs
3.2. Composite adverbials of place and direction
4. Postpositions and postposition-movement
5. Derivation of nouns
5.1. Suffixes
5.2. Reduplication
5.3. Compounding
5.4. Nominalized clauses with no nominalizing morphology
6. Taxonomy of things designated by nouns
6.1. Life-form generics
6.2. Other taxonomic levels
7. Miscellaneous notes on semantics
7.1. Levels of generality and the use and nonuse of semantic labels
7.2. Polysemy
8. The parts of dictionary entries
8.1. Organization of entries
8.2. Examples and attestation
8.3. Etymologies
8.4. Languages cited
9. Totems
10. Human classification and the kinship system
10.1. Ontological status
10.2. Race/colonial status
10.3. Ritual status
10.4. Stages of life
10.5. Gender
10.6. Special statuses
10.7. The kinship system
11. The respect register and its special vocabulary
12. Selected domains lists: plants, birds, and quantity terms
12.1. Plants
12.2. Bird species (minh-puth-lon)
12.3. Identification of other animal species
12.4. Quantity words
13. Specialized English usages
13.1. Local English
13.2. Other specialized English usages
Notes
Yir-Yoront-to-English dictionary
Index
Sources