Ebook: Studies in the Syntax of Mixtecan Languages. Volume IV

Publisher: SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
Date: 1992
Pages: 443
Language: EnglishThe present volume constitutes the fourth and final installment of a set that includes syntactic sketches of ten languages in the Mixtecan language family, which is one of eight families included in the Otomanguean stock. It contains sketches of two languages spoken in the western part of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico: Yosonda Mixtec, a member of the Western Highlands grouping of Mixtec languages, and Copala Trique.
These sketches follow the same outline and format as the sketches in the previous three volumes of the series (Bradley and Hollenbach 1988, 1990, 1991).1 They present the structure of the languages with minimum attention to theory, and over half of the space in each sketch is devoted to examples. As in most of the other sketches, each closes with an indigenous version of the tar-baby story as a sample text in the language.
Further information about these sketches can be found in the preface and introduction to Bradley and Hollenbach 1988.