(See Bradshaw 2006.) In the following examples, acute accents show the placement of word stress. The basic word order in Numbami is SVO, with prepositions, preposed genitives, postposed adjectives and relative clauses. Relative clauses are marked at both ends, and so are some prepositional phrases. Negatives come at the ends of the clauses they negate. There is also a class of deverbal resultatives that follow the main verb (and its object, if any). Two kinds of genitive modifiers precede their heads while one type follows its head noun (Bradshaw 1982a). Noun-noun phrases denoting wholes and parts occur in the order stated, with the latter serving as head of the phrase: "wuwu lau" 'betel pepper leaf', "tina daba" 'headwater', "nima daba" (lit. 'hand head') 'thumb', "kapala lalo" (lit. 'house inside') 'indoors', "Buzina bubusu" 'Buzina (Salamaua) point'. Genitive possessor nouns precede their head nouns, with an intervening possessive marker that distinguishes singular ("na") from plural ("ndi") possessors: "wuwu na lau" 'the leaves of the (generic) betel pepper plant; particular betel pepper plant's leaf'; "kapala na lalo" 'the insides of (generic) houses; the inside of a particular house'; "Siasi ndi gutu" 'the Siassi Islands; islands belonging to a particular group of Siassi people'; "bumewe ndi bani" 'food typically eaten by whites; food belonging to a particular group of whites'. Attributive genitives resemble possessive genitives except that (1) the modifiers follow their heads, and (2) the "possessors" are nonreferential except in a generic sense, that is, they "never refer to a particular subset of the set they name" (Bradshaw 1982a:128): "wuwu weni na" 'forest (wild) betel pepper', "wuwu Buzina ndi" 'type of betel pepper associated with the Buzina people at Salamaua', "walabeŋa tamtamoŋa na" 'fish poison, native means of stunning fish', "walabeŋa bumewe na" 'explosives, European means of stunning fish'.