The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

5.3.2.8 HERE/MOMENTARY –$i. The affixes of postverbal position 13 are primarily deictics,
but the proximal deictic HERE –$i (or with a second person subject, -$ita) also may have the
reading ‘momentarily’.
40) takiiwaayánc%i&
/ta-kii-waa-nan-c"i-li&/
3SUB.pl-RT-eat-HAB-HERE-PFTV
‘they came momentarily to eat, and returned’
41) kinkus%mutawakác%i peqtím im pá"m&a&
/kin-kus"mu- ta-waka-c"i-li& peqtimi pa#ma&/
1OBJ-CHEST-MID-up-HERE-PFTV one leaf
‘a leaf fell on my chest for a moment’
5.3.2.9 Enclitic adverbials YA –ts%! and JUST –ku’u". The final postverbal position may be
filled by the aspectual clitics YA –ts%! or JUST –ku’u". I gloss –ts%! in Spanish as ya, meaning
‘already’, because it is used in FM Totonac much as ya is in Spanish, that is, almost
automatically in verbs in the perfect or perfective aspect with little semantic addition. YA also
frequently co-occurs with the totalitive –qo’o in its meaning of ‘finish Xing’, but can occur on
verbs in any aspect. Both clitics cause the devoicing of the second mora of a preceding long
vowel, or aspiration following a short vowel (see §2.6.4.3).
42) kmis%kiniitánts*a&
/k-mis"ki-niita-ni&-ts'a&/
1SUB-give-PFT-2OBJ-YA
‘I have already given it to you’
43) c%is%kuuwáhts*a&
/c"is"kuu-wan-aa-ts’a&/
man-BECOME--IMPF YA
‘he’s already becoming a man’
The other aspectual enclitic, -ku’u", expresses the meaning ‘still’ on verbs in the imperfective or
progressive aspect, and ‘just’ with the perfective or perfect aspect.
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