'A Descriptive Grammar of Chontal Maya (San Carlos Dialect)' is an extensive description of the grammar of the language spoken by the Modern Chontal Maya of Tabasco, Mexico. The grammar primarily describes the San Carlos dialect, although data from other Chontal dialects is included where applicable The grammar is divided into four parts: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, and Sentence Formation. The Introduction provides an overview of Chontal and its speakers. It includes a discussion of the position of Chontal as a Mayan language, the delimitation of Chontal, sociolinguistic and dialectal information, a summary of published literature, and ethnographic information about San Carlos and its people. The phonology section outlines the phonemics and morphophonemics of Chontal. The most extensive section is Morphology. It describes the inflection, derivation, and use of verbs (transitive, intransitive, and positional), nouns, pronouns, particles, modifiers (adjectives and adverbs), affects, and numerals + numeral classifiers. The final section, Sentence Formation, discusses how to form simple (non-verbal and verbal), compound, and complex sentences. Appendices include lists of positional roots, numeral classifiers, and inflectional and derivational affixes, as well as an analyzed Chontal text and a Chontal-English lexicon
