Introduction

Chapter 1: Notes on Phonology

• Sounds and Pronunciation
  
• Roots Forms
  
• Stress and Intonation
  
• Examples for Pronunciation

Chapter 2: Basic Sentences

• Existence
  
• Specific Time or Place
  
• Temporal Particles: to, xa, `ox

Chapter 3: Location

• Definite Articles, Location
  
• Locative Sentences
  
• Emphasis, Fronting, and Definiteness
  
• Questions of Location
  
• Other Interrogative Words

Chapter 4: The Structure of Nouns, Part 1

• Nouns and Possession
  
• Possessive Prefixes
  
• Fronting Nouns
  
• Agentive Nouns with the Prefix j-
  
• Other Possessive Compounds
  
• Inalienable Possession

Chapter 5: Stative Sentences

• Stative Sentences
  
• Locative and Existential Sentences Used as Stative Sentences
  
• Interrogative and Negatives Forms of Stative Sentences
  
• Stative Sentences with Subjects in the First and Second person

Chapter 6: Intransitive Verbs

• Intransitive Verbs, Part 2
  
• Stative Forms of Intransitive Verbs
  
• Other Forms of Intransitive Verbs
  
• The Perfective (Preterite) Form
  
• Review of Intransitive Verb Forms
  
• Forms Derived from Intransitive Verbs
  
• Complex Sentences with Intransitive Verbs
  
• Intransitive Sentences with Instrument or Agent

Chapter 7: The Structure of Nouns, Part 2

• Other Expressions with Possessive Prefixes
  
• Word Order in Possessive Sentences
  
• Other Uses of -u`un-il
  
• Other Possessed Nouns
  
• Numeral Expressions
  
• The Structure of Nouns and Adjectives
  
• Noun Classes

Chapter 8: Transitive Verbs

• Transitivity
  
• Imperatives with Transitive Verbs
  
• Transitive Verbs with Auxiliaries
  
• Direct Objects of Transitive Verbs
  
• The Quasi-Subjunctive Use of Transitive Verbs
  
• Tense and Aspect with Transitive Verbs
  
• Transitive Verb Stems
  
• Word Order; Negative and Interrogative Forms
  
• "Ditransitive" Constructions
  
• Passive, "Anti-Passive," Middle-Voice, and Pseudo-Passive
  
• The "Favorite" Tzotzil Construction
  
• Pseudo-Verbs

Chapter 9: Complex Forms

• The Plural
  
• Pluralization of Nouns
  
• Reflexive and Reciprocal Verbs
  
• Imperative and Subjunctive
  
• Complex Structures

Footnotes

Bibliography