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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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134) kaawakayáa<br />

/kaa-waka-aa/<br />

LOC-up-IMPF<br />

‘he’s up on (the ro<strong>of</strong>)’<br />

135) kaatsiisnáma<br />

/kaa-tsiis-nan-maa/<br />

LOC-night-HAB-PROG<br />

‘night is falling in this place’<br />

136) kaas%kaqá<br />

/kaa-s"kaqa-aa/<br />

LOC-dawn-IMPF<br />

‘it becomes dawn in this place’<br />

137) kaaqawíw’<br />

/kaa-qawiw-aa/<br />

LOC-cold-IMPF<br />

‘the place is cold’<br />

138) kaapuksán<br />

/kaa-puksan-aa/<br />

LOC-stink-IMPF<br />

‘it stinks around here’<br />

However, examples <strong>of</strong> locatives deriving transitives from positionals <strong>and</strong> intransitives exist. My<br />

database contains no examples in which the object licensed by a locative has a speech act<br />

participant as referent, but it likely that the lexicalized predicates in 142 <strong>and</strong> 143 could be<br />

inflected with 1 st or 2 nd person object marker. Of the three cases below in which the locative<br />

argument takes object marking (in 141, 142, <strong>and</strong> 143), two have completely non-compositional<br />

semantics (‘he blames her’, ‘he thinks <strong>of</strong> him’), <strong>and</strong> one is also derived with instrumental lii-.<br />

139) puunúu kustá"<br />

/puu-nuu-aa kustal/<br />

LOC-in-IMPF sack<br />

‘he fills the sack’<br />

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