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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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224) "aaliwána k"tatá ’ás%ni n tuunuk"tatá<br />

/#aa=liwana k-#tatá-aa ‘as"ni tuunu=k-#tatá-aa/<br />

NEG=well 1SUB-sleep-IMPF when APT-1SUB-sleep-IMPF<br />

‘I don’t sleep well by myself’<br />

225) tuununc%iwiinán<br />

/tuunu-c"iwii-nan-aa/<br />

APT-speak-HAB-IMPF<br />

‘he speaks in a different way’<br />

5.5.5.6 Adverbial tseeq=. It means ‘secretely, in hiding’. With some verbs, instead <strong>of</strong> cliticizing<br />

to the verb, tseeq is reduplicated <strong>and</strong> appears preceding the verb in the position <strong>of</strong> other<br />

reduplicated sound symbolic adverbs (see §5.5.6).<br />

226) tseeqtalaakíitsuuk"<br />

/tseeq=ta-laa-kii-tsuuk-li&/<br />

HID-3SUB.pl-REC-RT-kiss-PFTV<br />

‘they went to kiss each other in secret’<br />

227) tséeq tséeq waayán<br />

/tseeq tseeq waayan-aa/<br />

HID HID eat-IMPF<br />

‘he eats in hiding’<br />

5.5.6 Reduplicated sound <strong>and</strong> manner adverbials. Besides the adverbials noted in §5.5.5, FM<br />

<strong>Totonac</strong> has a large number <strong>of</strong> sound symbolic adverbials (see §2.8.3). <strong>The</strong>y precede basic verbs<br />

<strong>of</strong> motion like min ‘come’, ’an ‘go’, wan ‘say’ <strong>and</strong> tlaawan ‘walk’ to express particular manners<br />

<strong>of</strong> motion. <strong>The</strong>se manner adverbials, some referring to the sound made by the motion, are fully<br />

reduplicated forms, each with its own primary stress. Such constructions are usually the only<br />

way to express certain kinds <strong>of</strong> movement, e.g. ‘roll’, ‘limp’.<br />

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