Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 1. Tone and inflection: An introduction -- Part 1: Tone and inflection: General questions with a focus on inflectional tonogenesis -- 2. Morphological tonal assignments in conflict: Who wins? -- 3. Tonogenesis and tonal alternations in Khaling -- 4. Tonal inflection in Mian -- 5. Tonal inflection in Mande languages: The cases of Bamana and Dan-Gwɛɛtaa -- Part 2: Tone and inflection: Insights from the Oto-Manguean languages -- 6. A typology of tone and inflection: A view from the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico -- 7. Tone and inflection in Zenzontepec Chatino -- 8. Tonal inflection and dialectal variation in Mazatec -- 9. Tonal overwriting and inflectional exponence in Amuzgo -- 10. Abstract and concrete tonal classes in Itunyoso Triqui person morphology -- 11. Tracing the emergence of inflectional tone in Cuicatec -- 12. Verbal inflection in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec -- Subject Index -- Language index