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This book presents an in-depth description of information structure in Isthmus Zapotec, an Otomanguean language spoken by around 50,000 people in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico, and represents the first book-length treatment of information structure in a Mesoamerican language. Three main observations motivate the study: Strong documentation and a relatively large and active speaker community create a unique opportunity to document information structure in Isthmus Zapotec and to study the language as it is used by speakers in everyday life; As a tonal and verb-initial language, the examination of Isthmus Zapotec represents a chance to explore the possible combinations of tone, intonation, morphology and verb-initial syntax that may occur in the coding of information structure.

Linguistics --- Structural linguistics --- Zapotecan languages.

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Zapotec language --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Linguistic change. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Zapotecas language --- Zapoteco language --- Zapotecan languages --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Grammar. --- Phonology. --- Variation. --- Typology --- Classification