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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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261) tsaqsátiti kilaaqas%matáan<br />

/tsaqsa-titi& kin-laa-qas"mat-aa-ni&/<br />

try-2SUB.pl 1OBJ-2/1-hear-IMPF-2OBJ<br />

‘you pl. tried to listen to us’<br />

262) tsaqsapá n kinkuc%íi<br />

/tsaqsa-para-li& kin-kuc"ii-aa/<br />

try-ITER-PFTV 1OBJ-cure-IMPF<br />

‘he tried again to cure me’<br />

263) s%aktsaqsá ktanúu<br />

/s"a-k-tsaqsa-aa k-ta-nuu-aa/<br />

PAST-1SUB-try-IMPF 1SUB-INC-in-IMPF<br />

‘I was trying to enter’<br />

264) lakapaastakáa n tlawakutunáa<br />

/lakapaastak-aa n tlawa-kutun-aa<br />

think-IMPF do-DES-IMPF<br />

‘you pl. think you want to do it’<br />

265) s%talakpuuwantii"á natawaayán<br />

/s"-ta-lak-puuwan-tii#a-aa na-ta-waayan-aa/<br />

PAST-3SUB.pl-DIST-think-AMB-IMPF FUT-3SUB.pl-eat-IMPF<br />

‘they were thinking <strong>of</strong> eating’<br />

<strong>The</strong> verb tsuku ‘begin’ can function like the V1 verbs exemplified above, but sometimes acts as a<br />

preverbal particle that inflects (through perfective stress shift) only for aspect, as in the first 3<br />

examples below, where all overt inflection is on V2. This is more common when there are no<br />

TAM affixes involved. If TAM categories are overtly marked, they are marked on tsuku, <strong>and</strong><br />

both verbs are inflected for 1SUB k- <strong>and</strong> 3SUB.pl ta-.<br />

266) tsúku n ktasá 267) tsúku n talaaqtsín<br />

/tsuku-li& k-tasa-aa/ /tsuku-li& ta-laaqtsin-aa/<br />

begin-PFTV 1SUB-cry-IMPF begin-PFTV 3SUB.pl-see-IMPF<br />

‘I began to cry’ ‘they began to look’<br />

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