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his time in reading preliminary manuscripts, and 
has made a number of suggestions which we have 
tried to incorporate in the finished paper. To 
these persons who have aided us, we wish to ex- 
press our appreciation. No one is more aware 
than we of the limitations inherent in our data 
and manuscript. We hope, however, that a 
sketch of a heretofore undescribed language will 
be of use to those persons working in the field of 
comparative Mexican linguistics. 
ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS 
The following abbreviations and symbols have been used: 
Abbreviations 
adj. —adjective 
ag. —agentive 
asp. —aspect 
at. —attributive 
ben. —hbenefactive 
caus. —causative 
com. —comitative 
comb. —combining 
comp. —compound 
compl. —completive 
cond. —conditioned 
conj. —conjunction 
const. —construction 
def. art. —definite article 
dem. —demonstrative 
dur. —durative 
en. —enumerative 
enc. —enclitic 
excl. —exclusive 
gen. —generalized 
ger. —gerundial 
i. —intransitive 
imp. —imperative 
inc. —incompletive 
incl. —inclusive 
ind. —independent 
indef. art.—indefinite article 
indir. —indirective 
inst. —instrumentative 
intro. — introducing 
inter. —interrogative 
lim. —limiting, limited 
lit. —literally 
loc. —locative 
modif. —modifying, modified 
neg. —negative 
nom. —nominalizing 
Abbreviations 
obj. —object 
p- —pronominal 
pas. —passive 
per. —person 
part. —particularizing 
perf. —perfective 
pers. —personal 
pl. —plural 
pos. —possessive 
pred. —predicative 
pref. —prefix 
pron. —pronoun 
purp. —purposive 
quant. —quantitative 
rel. —relative 
repet. —repetitive 
res. —resultative 
sim. —simulative 
Sp. —Spanish 
st. —stative 
sub. —subject 
subj. —subjunctive 
subord. —subordinate 
suf. —suffix 
t. —transitive 
tem. —temporal 
verb. —verbalizing 
Symbols 
(raised dot) long vowel 
(period) sylabie division 
(acute accent) loud stress 
(grave accent) medial stress 
* (asterisk) verb theme 
# zero prefix, suffix 
/t/ ete. phonemic recording 
{t] ete. phonetic recording 
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