Frontmatter -- Introduction / Derbyshire, Desmond C. / Pullum, Geoffrey K. -- Part I: Grammatical Sketches -- Outline of Contents for each chapter in Part I -- Apalai / Koehn, Edward / Koehn, Sally -- Canela-Krahô / Popjes, Jack / Popjes, Jo -- Pirahã / Everett, Daniel L. -- Urubu-Kaapor / Kakumasu, James -- Part II: Word Order and Typological Studies -- Verb Prominence, Verb Initialness, Ergativity and Typological Disharmony in Guajajara / Harrison, Carl H. -- Basic Constituent Order in Yagua Clauses: Implications for Word Order Universals / Payne, Doris L. -- Part III: Comparative Arawakan Studies -- Comparative Survey of Morphology and Syntax in Brazilian Arawakan / Derbyshire, Desmond C. -- Grammatical Characteristics of PreAndine Arawakan Languages of Peru / Wise, Mary Ruth