This work is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Sierra Popoluca a Mixe-Zoquean
language spoken by approximately 28 000 people in Veracruz Mexico. This detailed description
and analysis includes an overview of the language and its family its typological features and
its phonology. The grammar also provides an overview of the word classes including verbs
nouns relational nouns postpositions adjectives adverbs numbers and formative types. The
bulk of this grammar is devoted to the morphosyntax of Sierra Popoluca including nouns and
nominal morphology verbs and verbal morphology and the mechanisms for expressing tense
aspect mood and modality. An agglutinating polysynthetic head-marking language with
ergative-absolutive alignment and sensitivity to animacy and saliency hierarchies Sierra
Popoluca has a number of strategies to form complex predicates which include verb
serialization noun incorporation and dependent verb constructions. These complex predicate
formation strategies and sentence-level syntax are also described here. A compilation of
interlinearized texts appears in the appendix. There is no competing work that provides the
breadth and depth of coverage of the Sierra Popoluca grammar.
