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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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13) "aa"aantamaakán<br />

/#aa=#aa=ta-maa-kan/<br />

NEG=INT=INC-lie-REF<br />

‘they don’t lie down anywhere’ (7,156 jsf)<br />

14) "aalanc%iikatíwanti&<br />

/#aa=la=c"ii=ka-ti-wan-ti&/<br />

NEG=POT=INT=IRR-CNTR-say-2SUB.sg<br />

‘you can’t say anything’ (8,158 mjl)<br />

5.3 Secondary mood <strong>and</strong> aspect. In addition to the primary mood <strong>and</strong> aspect categories<br />

obligatorily marked on every verb that were covered in the section on inflection, FM <strong>Totonac</strong> has<br />

several secondary affixes in each category. This includes three deontic moods, <strong>and</strong> a varied set <strong>of</strong><br />

aspectual affixes. Each <strong>of</strong> these is discussed below, beginning with the modal markers.<br />

5.3.1 Secondary moods. Besides the epistemic mood distinction <strong>of</strong> realis <strong>and</strong> irrealis, FM<br />

<strong>Totonac</strong> has three deontic moods: negative potential, counterexpectational, <strong>and</strong> desiderative.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se are all generally able to combine with each other, with realis or irrealis mood, <strong>and</strong> with all<br />

tenses <strong>and</strong> aspects, although some combinations are pragmatically unusual. <strong>The</strong> negative<br />

potential was described in §5.2.3.<br />

5.3.1.1 Counterexpectational mood. <strong>The</strong> counterexpectational marker ti- has two related<br />

functions. It is required to appear with certain other mood or tense markers for a particular<br />

compositional semantics, as discussed in §4.7.1.2. It can also be used with any verb in any TAM<br />

inflection to indicate that the action <strong>of</strong> the verb takes place contrary to some expectation relevant<br />

to the context, an expectation that is <strong>of</strong>ten not made explicit. This is the function exemplied in 15<br />

<strong>and</strong> 16.<br />

15) naktic%án<br />

/na-k-ti-c"an/<br />

FUT-1SUB-CNTR-sow-IMPF<br />

‘I’m going to sow (in spite <strong>of</strong> . . )’<br />

16) kintikaaliilán<br />

/kin-ti-kaa-lii-la-ni-li&/<br />

1OBJ-CNTR-OBJ.pl-INST-live-2OBJ-PFTV<br />

‘he beat us (in spite <strong>of</strong> . . )’<br />

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