SUMMARY
1-5. The Theme.
6-15. Preliminary Questions of Method.
16-37. Section I : The Search for the Root. 16-24. Seeking the Root in an Individual Language. 25-37. Seeking the Root by means of the Comparison of Languages.
38-62. Section II : The Characteristics of the Foot. 38. Preliminary Observations, 39-43. The Three Sounds of a Root. 44-51. Variation. 52-4. Determination. 55. Metathesis. 56-60. Homophony. 61-2. The Meaning of the Root.
63-97. Section III : The Formation of the Word-base from the Root. 63. Preliminary Observations. 64-72. The Root as Word-base. 73-9. The Reduplicated Root as Word-base. 80-4. Combination of Roots to form the Word-base. 85-96. Coalescence of Formatives with the Root to form the Word-base. 97. Prefixing the Pĕpĕt.
98-112. Section IV: The Characteristics of the Word-base. 98. Preliminary Observations. 99. Structure. 100. Homophony. 101-10. Function. 111. Reduplication. 112. Extension.
