This grammar deals only with the speech form of Tzotzil currently in use by 65,000 speakers in the area around Huixtan, Chiapas, Mexico. The grammar is framed in terms of a theory which depends upon Pike's hierarchical structures and Lamb's stratificational model. It presents a description of the syntactic component of Tzotzil, with a few references made to the semantic component and several statements relating it to the syntactic component. A partial statement of the relation between the syntactic component and the phonological component is also attempted. Sections deal with the clause, subsets of stative clauses, subsets of non-stative clauses, nouns and noun phrases, nominal inflection, relator phrases, modals, apposition, word formation, and morphophonemics. (DO)