Paragraph 1

 Include information about the language--where it is spoken, the people who speak it, the status of the language, etc.  Be sure to name the family to which the language belongs.  Use suggestions from the Ecology of Language handout.

Paragraph 2

 This is the overall typological statement.  (For example, it is a suffixing language or a prefixing language.)  This paragraph could also include general statements on the language.

Paragraph 3
 
 General statements about the language will be here, as well as a brief statement of the phonology of the language.  This is necessary so that Dr. Hardman can clearly read the transcribed examples.  (For example, if the abstract were on Arabic, this paragraph would explain that there are a lot of pharyngeals and glottals in the language and show the symbols to be used.)

Following paragraphs

 The majority of the abstract will be composed of the overall morphology of the language.  Nouns and verbs should be discussed, as well as anything else of interest.  There is an example about the Jaqaru verb system in the Hardman Sampler, but it is more brief than should be explained in the abstract.  Remember that each abstract will vary because they are very dependent on the particular language being analyzed.  And examples are always good!

Concluding paragraph

 This should include anything else of interest such as syntactic information if it is appropriate.

Final paragraph

 This will be your evaluation of the language's morphology; e.g. it was hard/easy to understand, you encountered messy printing, etc.