This book is the first detailed description of Kolyma Yukaghir, a seriously endangered language spoken by about 50 people in the northeast of Asiatic Russia. Based on extensive field materials and text records, it provides a thorough and richly exemplified description of all major components of Yukaghir grammar - phonology, morphology, and syntax, annotated sample texts, and a Yukaghir-English vocabulary. The book will be of interest for scholars of Uralic and Siberian languages, linguistic typology, and general linguistics.From the contents:1. Introduction2. Kolyma Yukaghir and its speakers3. Phonology4. Parts of speech and inflectional paradigms5. Nominal morphology6. Verb morphology7. Morphology of closed classes8. Noun phrase and postpositional phrase9. Syntax of the clause10. Clause chaining11. Subordination12. Nominal predicates and grammatical Focus13. Sentence types and negation14. Coreference and discourse coherence