A laboratory manual for introductory grammar courses. Contains 298 datasets of problems taken from 117 languages spoken all over the world. International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols replaced the Americanist symbols in some datasets. Some datasets remain or have been recast in orthographies used by reading populations of certain languages where phonological issues are not in view.

Presents studies focusing on world view and cultural change from five Amazonian communities. Documents some of the results of modernizing influences from the outside as well as some of the underlying ideologies used to interpret these influences.

These studies represent the following languages: Paumari, Cubeo, Tucano, Kayabi, and Surui, spoken in Brazil, and Cogui, Guahibo, and Coreguaje, spoken in Colombia.

Reconstructs the protolanguage of six languages found in the Mexico. The book has two major section, Analysis and Data for the language family groups: Oto-Manguean kinship terms, Mixtecan kinship terms, Popolocan kinship term, Otopamean kinship terms, Zapotecan kinship terms, Chinantecan kinship terms, and other Oto-Manguean kinship terms.