Preface
Abbreviations

1 General Introduction = 1
1.1 The Dolgan people
1.2 The Dolgan language
2 General description of the fieldwork studies in Yakutsk = 7
2.1 Participants
2.2 Questionnaire, equipments, and method
2.3 Trip to Yakutsk
2.4 Consultants
2.4.1 Anna Grigor’evna ?UPRINA
2.4.2 Jelena Polikarpovna TIMOFEJEVA
2.4.3 Aleksandra Grigor’evna NIKIFOROVA
2.5 Persons who provided local assistance
3 Linguistic description of Dolgan = 19
3.1 Phonology
3.1.1 Vowels
3.1.2 Consonants
3.1.3 Vowel harmony
3.1.4 Consonant change
3.1.5 Vowel addition
3.1.6 Metathesis
3.1.7 Accent
3.2 Morphology = 43
3.2.1 Possessive suffixes and personal endings
3.2.2 Nouns
3.2.3 Pronouns
3.2.4 Adjectives
3.2.5 Numerals
3.2.6 Adverbs
3.2.7 Auxiliary nouns and postpositions
3.2.8 Verbs
3.2.9 Conjunctions and particles
3.2.10 Interjections
3.2.11 Word Formation
3.3 Syntax = 243
3.3.1 Phrases
3.3.2 Sentences

Appendix 1 Vocabulary = 313
Appendix 2 Basic Conversational Expressions = 611
Appendix 3 Data for Grammatical Analysis = 639
References = 683
Abstract = 689