Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Orthographic Note -- I. INTRODUCTION / Edmonson, Munro S. -- II. SOUND SYMBOLISM IN THE MAYAN LANGUAGE FAMILY / Durbin, Marshall E. -- III. SEMANTIC ASPECTS OF YUCATEC DUAL-OBJECT CONSTRUCTIONS / Owen, Michael G. -- IV. CHORTÍ SEMANTICS: SOME PROPERTIES OF ROOTS AND AFFIXES / Fought, John G. -- V. THE SEMANTICS OF SOCIAL CATEGORIES IN A TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR OF JACALTEC / Day, Christopher -- VI. ACQUISITION OF BOTANICAL TERMINOLOGY BY TZELTAL CHILDREN / Stross, Brian -- VII. CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE AND LEXICAL RETENTION IN TZELTAL-TZOTZIL ETHNOBOTANY / Berlin, Brent / Breedlove, Dennis E. / Laughlin, Robert M. / Raven, Peter H. -- VIII. COMPOUND PLACE NAMES IN CHUJ AND OTHER MAYAN LANGUAGES / Hopkins, Nicholas A. -- IX. THREE GENRES OF TZOTZIL INSULT / Bricker, Victoria Reifler -- X. CHAMULA TZOTZIL PROVERBS: NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL / Gossen, Gary H. -- XI. SEMANTIC UNIVERSALS AND PARTICULARS IN QUICHE / Edmonson, Munro S. -- Index