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Description
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.
The book provides a detailed description of the grammar of Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec, an endangered Mesoamerican language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. It also contains rich vocabulary and discussions on typologically interesting phenomena like the encoding of agents by stem alternation and complex interactions between tone and phonation, as well as topics in semantics such as the expression of location and the relevance of the posture of entities in existential predication.
Ambrocio Gutiérrez; University of Colorado Boulder, USA; Hiroto Uchihara, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.
