Ayutla Mixtec, Just in Case

Abstract

1 Ayutla Mixtec is spoken in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. Robert Hills began fieldwork in the town of Tepango in January 1972 and has profited greatly from the extensive field notes and personal guidance given him by Leo Pankratz to whom grateful acknowledgment is hereby expressed. This study was carried out in collaboration with William Merrifield at the linguistic center of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico, in the fall of 1972. principal informant during this period was Sr. Cresencio Martinez of Tepango. orthography used is that presented in L. Pankratz and E. V. Pike, Phonology and Morphotonemics of Ayutla Mixtec, IJAL 33 (1967): 287-99, except that tone is indicated as follows: low tone (unmarked), mid tone by a grave accent ('), and high tone by an acute accent ('). 2 C. Fillmore, A Proposal Concerning English Prepositions, Georgetown University Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics 19 (1966): 19-33; The Case for Case, in Universals in Linguistic Theory, ed. E. Bach and R. Harms (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968); Types of Lexical Information, in Semantics, ed. D. Steinberg and L. Jakobovits (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1969); The Grammar of 'Hitting' and 'Breaking', in Readings in English Transformational Grammar, ed. R. Jacobs and P.