SDZ is an Otomanguean language spoken in San Dionicio Ocotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico

by 2,000 3,000 people. Thanks to Pamela Munro and members of the audience at LexicalFunctional Grammar 2003 for comments on this paper. Special thanks to Luisa Martínez, who provided all the SDZ data. An earlier version of this paper was presented at Lexical-Functional Grammar 2003. The orthography for SDZ is adapted from the practical orthographies for other Zapotec languages spoken in the Valley of Oaxaca. In the SDZ orthography symbols have their usual phonetic values, with the following exceptions. = /š/ before a vowel and /ž/ before a consonant, = /š/, = /dž/, = /tš/, = /k/ before back vowels, = /k/ before front vowels, = trilled /r/, and = /e/. Doubled vowels are long. SDZ is a language with four contrastive phonation types: breathy , creaky , checked , and plain . Glosses use the following abbreviations: a=animal, aff = affirmative, cer = certainty, com = completive aspect, con = continuative aspect, cs = causative, def = definite future aspect, dem = demonstrative, foc = focus, hab = habitual aspect, neg = negative, p = possessed, plur = plural, pot = potential aspect, q = question, r=respect, ref=reflexive, rel = relative, stat= stative aspect, top=topic.