*Santa Catarina Quiogultani is a town o£ approximately 1,000 inhabiatants located in the southern mountains of Oaxaca in the district of San Carlos Yautepec. The main town of the language area is Santa Catalina Quierl, which has approximately 2,500 inhabitants. The total language area, which includes two or three other smaller towns which speak closely related dialects, encompasses about 5,000 people. Field work began in June, 1983. This study was done in the spring of 1987 in consultation with Zapotec speaker Emiliano Zurita, age 19. S. I. L.- -HEX I CO WORKPAPERS Numbtsr 9. (11/87) TABLE OF CONTENTS Paragraph Analysis for Amatlln Zapotee 1 David Brent Riggs Participant Accessibility in Yalalag Zapotee 12 Ronald Newberg A Focus Particle in Quioquitani Zapotee 26 Michael Ward Fronting and Related Features in Santo Domingo Albarradas Zapotee 33 Wolfram Kreikebaum Clause and Sentence-Level Word Order and Discourse Strategy in Chichicapan Zapotee Oral Narrative Discourse 72 Joseph Benton The Functions of the Clitic -ha in Western Ixtlan Zapotee 85 Grace Thiessen A Search for Naturalness in Translated Material 101 Joan Smith Journal Writing with a Language Associate 107 Diane Poole A Chinantec Fable lU Judi Lynn Anderson The Multipurpose Chinantec Word "ja*" 122 Jim Rupp A publication of the Mexico Branch of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc., designed for the publication and distribution of data oriented or preliminary reports in linguistics and related fields. Copies may be obtained from the Linguistics Coordinator, Summer Institute of Linguistics, P.O. Box 8987 CRB, Tucson, AZ 85738-0987 or from el Institute LingBIstico de Verano, Apdo. 22067, 14000 Mexico, D.P.