This volume contains fifteen fully analyzed Karao texts, collected in the community of Karao in Benguet Province, Luzon, Philippines, between 1988 and 2003 as part of on-going fieldwork. Karao is a Southern Cordilleran language of the Northern Philippines and is spoken by approximately 1400 people. The language displays typical Philippine-type morphosyntax. Case marking has a consistently ergative-absolutive pattern, but syntactic control displays a mixed pattern in that control is distributed more or less evenly between the two grammatical relations of the transitive clause.The collection contains traditional narratives, including two classic Karao accounts, one about how the Karaos came to their present location in Benguet Province and the other about why snakes do not bite the Karaos. In addition to traditional narrative, first-person narrative, procedural, expository, and hortatory genre are also represented.Each text is presented in a four-line interlinearized format composed of an orthographic representation, a morpheme analysis, a gloss for each morpheme, and a free translation. A short introduction gives information about the Karao people, the orthographic representation, principles of analysis, and the version of localist case grammar used for the analysis of verbs and semantic roles in the texts. Three appendices provide additional details about nominal markers, pronouns, verb affixes, and nominalizing affixes.Ordering information:Orders may be placed by: email: info_philippines@sil.org fax: +63-2-726-2012 mail: Academic Publications, Summer Institute of Linguistics P.O. Box 2270 CPO, 1099 Manila, PhilippinesSorry, we do not have credit card facilities. Payment in US dollars or Philippine pesos only (peso price available on request). Unless requested, orders are shipped via surface mail (about 4 to 6 months).When an order is received, the books will be sent out. An invoice with the full amount due will be sent out separately. Alternatively, airmail or international courier shipping is available.