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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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verbally, <strong>and</strong> vowel harmony <strong>and</strong> vowel coalescence post-verbally. No evidence exists to<br />

determine if it is the harmonic prefixes or suffixes that attach to the verb root first.<br />

Table 6.6 Inner harmonic zone<br />

3 2 1 0 1 2<br />

Body parts<br />

Inceptive/Middle Voice<br />

Distributive<br />

ROOT<br />

Transitivizer<br />

Indef. Object/Habitual<br />

6.5.1.2.1 Suffix vowel harmony. Marking out the first <strong>of</strong> the subzones to be considered is rootto-suffix<br />

vowel harmony, undergone only by the transitivizer –ii <strong>and</strong> the indefinite object –nan.<br />

(Actually, there is a single lexicalized case <strong>of</strong> vowel harmony <strong>of</strong> CAUS maa- with the positional<br />

root xuu ‘in vertically’, muuxúu ‘he inserts it’; note that this also occurs within the causativized<br />

stem/Zone 1.) For some speakers, this is a regular <strong>and</strong> productive process, with a few verbs,<br />

however, lexicalized with a non-harmonic transitivizer or indefinite object marker. For other<br />

speakers, the opposite situation holds: certain verbs seem to be lexicalized to take the harmonic<br />

affixes, but generally the –ii <strong>and</strong> –nan forms are employed (see §2.6.4.2).<br />

36) Examples <strong>of</strong> vowel harmony in TRAN –ii <strong>and</strong> HAB -nan<br />

maa-kut-úu ‘he removes it’<br />

maa-kaks-áa ‘he shuts him up’<br />

c%uku-nún ‘he drills for a living’<br />

neqe-nín ‘he prepares a field for planting’<br />

One other process occurs only 7 within this inner subzone: vowel coalescence. Instead <strong>of</strong> the<br />

glottal stop or glide epenthesis found in every other case <strong>of</strong> hiatus, the affixation <strong>of</strong> the<br />

transitivizer suffix to a vowel-final verb root results in the loss <strong>of</strong> the final root vowel.<br />

6.5.1.2.2 Prefix dorsal harmony. On the prefix side <strong>of</strong> the verb, distributive lak- in position 1<br />

<strong>and</strong> some <strong>of</strong> the more than 30 body part prefixes (BPPs) in position 3 regularly undergo dorsal<br />

7 One possible additional case is the resolution <strong>of</strong> the three mora string <strong>of</strong> NEG "aa= <strong>and</strong> NOT<br />

YET a*= into the two mora "aa*= on the leftmost edge <strong>of</strong> the verb.<br />

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