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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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26) prépah=tsa s%a-k-‘án<br />

high.school=ALREADY PAST-1SUB-go<br />

‘I was already going to high school’<br />

27) c%is%kúh=ts’a&<br />

man=ALREADY<br />

‘He’s already a man.’<br />

28) c%inc%oo k-universidah=ts’a& kqa"tawaqá-ma<br />

now LOC-university=ALREADY 1SUB-study-PROG<br />

‘Now I’m already studying at the university’<br />

29) maqáan=ts’a&<br />

old-ALREADY<br />

‘(s/he is) already old’<br />

30) s%a-sqatah=kú’u&<br />

ADJ-baby=STILL<br />

‘(it is) still unripe’<br />

31) maqkáw=tsa k-la-" k-c%úc%uti&<br />

ten=YA 1SUB-live-PFTV LOC-water<br />

‘I already went to the water ten times’<br />

32) ’aqtim=kú’u&<br />

one=STILL<br />

‘barely one’<br />

3.3.9.3 Other clitics. Two other proclitics, maya=, meaning ‘nothing but’ <strong>and</strong> laa=, ‘meaning<br />

‘like’, may attach only to nouns.<br />

33) maya=s%a-tsitséqe&<br />

nothing.but=ADJ-black<br />

‘nothing but black ones’<br />

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