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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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to speech act participants, both may be cross-referenced on the verb with object affixes. When a<br />

second object argument is in the third person, it is marked by the dative –nii suffix. FM <strong>Totonac</strong><br />

is a symmetrical object language in Bresnan & Moshi’s (1990) sense, as MacKay <strong>and</strong> Trechsel<br />

(2000) argue for Misantla <strong>Totonac</strong>. That is, the two objects simultaneously exhibit primary<br />

object properties. <strong>The</strong>re is no formal way to determine which object marker references the<br />

causee <strong>and</strong> which the oblique argument. Unless clarified by context or pragmatics, the<br />

interpretation is guided by a 2, 1>3 person hierarchy. In non-causative constructions, DATIVE -<br />

nii serves similarly to add an additional argument to a transitive verb, e.g. kkuciiyáan ‘I cure<br />

you’; kkuciiniiyáan ‘I cure you for him/him for you’. Some examples <strong>of</strong> causatives <strong>of</strong> transitive<br />

verbs follow:<br />

63) kimaalaaqtsíni<br />

/kin-maa-laaqtsin-nii-li&/<br />

1OBJ-CAUS-see-DAT-PFTV<br />

‘he made me see it’<br />

64) kinkaatiimaamaqtaqá"ni<br />

/kin-kaa-tii-maa-maqtaqal-nii-li&/<br />

1OBJ-OBJ.pl-PASS-CAUS-care.for-DAT-PFTV<br />

‘he made us pass by to care for him’<br />

65) kimaaliimíni<br />

/kin-maa-lii=min-nii-li&/<br />

1OBJ-CAUS-bring-DAT-PFTV<br />

‘he made me bring it’<br />

66) maaki"t"iniiyáan<br />

/maa-ki#tli-nii-aa-ni&/<br />

CAUS-sing-DAT-IMPF-2OBJ<br />

‘he makes you sing it’<br />

67) kmaamaq"tiníini kintúumin<br />

/k-maa-maq#ti-nii-ni&-li&/<br />

1SUB-CAUS-receive-DAT-2OBJ-PFTV<br />

‘I made you receive my money for him’<br />

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