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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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look at each other’ would require periphrastic expression. <strong>The</strong> order <strong>of</strong> a"= is fixed immediately<br />

following "aa=, <strong>and</strong> the three consecutive vowels are shortened, yielding "aa"= in all cases.<br />

2) "aa"s%tápaati&<br />

/#aa=a#=s"-ta-paati-aa/<br />

NEG-YET-PAST-3SUB.pl-tolerate-IMPF<br />

‘they couldn’t tolerate it anymore’<br />

3) "aa"ks%kulí<br />

/#aa= a#= k- s"kuli-aa/<br />

NEG-YET-1SUB-smoke-IMPF<br />

‘I don’t smoke anymore’<br />

4) "aanaakaktitáma<br />

/#aa= naa=ka- k- ti-ta- maa-li&/<br />

NEG-ALSO-IRR-1SUB-CNTR-MID-lying-PFTV<br />

‘I’m still not going to bed.’<br />

5.2.3 Negative potential la=. <strong>The</strong> second negative polarity morpheme is the negative potential,<br />

la=, which can also be categorized as a secondary mood marker. Semantically it adds the<br />

meaning ‘not able to’. An affirmative potential statement cannot contain la-, but relies on the use<br />

<strong>of</strong> the pre-verbal adverbial tsee ‘well’, as exemplified in example 7.<br />

5) "aa"latlaawán<br />

/#aa=a#=la=tlaawan-aa/<br />

NEG=YET=POT=walk-IMPF<br />

‘he can’t walk anymore’<br />

6) "aalaliic%iiyáan láaso<br />

/#aa=la=lii-c"ii-aa-ni& laaso/<br />

NEG=POT=INSTR-tie-IMPF-2OBJ rope<br />

‘he can’t tie you up with rope’<br />

7) tsee nakán<br />

/tsee-na-k-an-aa/<br />

well-FUT-1SUB-go-IMPF<br />

‘I can go’<br />

! "'-!

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