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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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eplaced by an idiosyncratic construction based on the root la ‘live’. This kind <strong>of</strong> exceptional<br />

behavior is not entirely unexpected in a closed class item, <strong>and</strong> seems to be purely lexical.<br />

47) kamaawáka kmésa<br />

/ka-maa-waka k-mesa/<br />

IRR-CAUS-up LOC-table<br />

‘put it up on the table!’<br />

48) wilíi *maawi(la)<br />

/wila-ii/<br />

seated-TRANS<br />

‘he seated her’<br />

49) yáawa *maayaa<br />

/yaa-wan/<br />

st<strong>and</strong>ing-become?<br />

‘he stood it up’<br />

50) kta!amí *kmaamaa<br />

/k-ta-la-mi/<br />

1SUB-INC-live-DOWN<br />

‘I put him to bed’<br />

5.4.1.1.2 Causativized intransitive verbs. A subset <strong>of</strong> the intransitives have causatives in<br />

maq(a)- (see §5.4.1.2) Otherwise, any intransitive verb may be causativized by maa-, usually in<br />

combination with the transitivizing suffix –ii or –VV. Note that, in example 53, an inanimate<br />

object may be the causer, although animate causers are much more common.<br />

51) maaxas%áa<br />

/maa-xas"-ii-aa/<br />

CAUS-rest-TRAN-IMPF<br />

‘s/he makes him/her rest’<br />

52) maapanqnankán<br />

/maa-panq-nan-kan-aa/<br />

CAUS-explode-IND.O-REF-IMPF<br />

‘someone explodes something’<br />

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