Upper necaxa totonac dictionary

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The Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionary is the most extensive collection of lexical material for any member of the Totonac-Tepehua family and the only record for this previously-undescribed polysynthetic language, spoken in two dialects by about 3,400 people in Puebla State, Mexico. It includes a short grammatical sketch and 9,000 lexical entries, featuring fixed expressions, idioms, and ideophones. Each entry provides part-of-speech information, phonetic transcriptions, dialectal notes, grammatical details (like plurals and classifiers), morpheme-by-morpheme glosses, example sentences, and cross-references to derived forms and related words. An accompanying DVD offers additional illustrative sentences, audio recordings of headwords, and interlinear glosses for many entries. This dictionary is uniquely structured for academic linguists, emphasizing the morphological structure of words and the organization of the Totonacan lexicon. Glosses reflect the complement-structure of words, indicating the number of arguments required by specific lexical items, with verbs classified by dynamicity and valency. It serves linguists studying American indigenous languages and those interested in morphologically complex words, as well as historical linguists and Mesoamericanists focused on pre-Columbian history and ethnogeography in Mexico.