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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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207) kkiitamaqskux"i&<br />

/k-kii-ta-maq-skux-#i&/<br />

1exc-RT-INC-ASS-work-PFTV<br />

‘I went with him to work with others’<br />

5.5.2 Distributive lak-. <strong>The</strong> distributive prefix lak- (or laq-; see §2.6.2.1 on uvular harmony)<br />

distributes the action <strong>of</strong> the verb over multiple objects or places, as in ta$oqó ‘s/he stops’, but<br />

talaq$oqó ‘s/he strolls around’ (with the implication that s/he stops here <strong>and</strong> there). It adds the<br />

meaning <strong>of</strong> ‘all over’ with verbs <strong>of</strong> hitting, i.e., nik ‘s/he hits him with a stick' <strong>and</strong> lakník ‘s/he<br />

hits him all over’. With resultative verbs <strong>of</strong> cutting, breaking, etc., it indicates that the affected<br />

entity is decomposed into many small pieces; for example pu# ‘s/he breaks it’; lakpu# ‘s/he<br />

bursts it’. With verbs <strong>of</strong> washing <strong>and</strong> drying, lak- is conventionally taken to refer to dishes, as in<br />

example 210. A verb derived with lak- does not take an object marker, indicating that it does not<br />

affect the valence.<br />

208) lakkaamií 209) laktláwa radio<br />

/lak-kaa-mii-aa/ /lak-tlawa-li& radio/<br />

DIST-cut-DOWN-IMPF DIST-make-PFTV radio<br />

‘he cuts it into pieces’ ‘he took apart the radio’<br />

210) maalakskáak 211) talakc%iwíina<br />

/maa-lak-skaak-aa/ /ta-lak-c"iwii-nan-li&/<br />

CAUS-DIST-dry-IMPF 3SUB.pl-DIST-talk-HAB<br />

‘he dries the dishes’ ‘they all talked it over’<br />

5.5.3 ‘Down’. <strong>The</strong> suffix I refer to as ‘DOWN’ appears to derive from the transitivized postural<br />

stative maa ‘lying’ (maa ‘lying’ + -ii ‘transitivizer’). This stative has a suppletive form, paa,<br />

when the subject <strong>of</strong> the verb is second person, <strong>and</strong> likewise DOWN has the form -mii with first<br />

<strong>and</strong> third person subjects, <strong>and</strong> -pii with 2 nd subjects. Verbs derived with DOWN sometimes have<br />

straightforward semantics as in taramií sqat h A (

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