The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

harmony with the root (Table 2.9 contains a list of such BPPs). A uvular segment anywhere in
the verb root results in the affixation of the uvular allomorph of a harmonizing prefix, although
not all body part prefixes with velar stops have uvular allomorphs (described more fully in
§2.6.2.1). The intervening prefix position 2 contains only the inceptive or middle voice marker
ta-, which of course cannot undergo dorsal harmony.
37) Examples of dorsal harmony with the distributive and BPPs
ta-lak-c%awá ‘it closes’
ta-laq-c%oqó ‘he strolls around’
maka-’án ‘he throws it’
maqa-lóonq ‘his hands are cold’
6.5.1.2.3 Harmony summary. Dorsal harmony and the vowel harmony and coalescence
processes among the few affixes closest to the verb root seem to mark out a subzone of tightly
bound morphemes within the larger Zone 1. As is often the case in FM Totonac, a zone picked
out by one type of evidence conforms only partially with other zones. Outside this harmonic
subzone, verbal morphemes do not undergo morphophonological changes when brought together
at word edges. The harmony sub-zone may be at the historical core of the FM Totonac verb.
6.5.2 Zone 2. Zone 2 includes the causativized stem plus the variable affix ordering areas on
either side (discussed in §6.2). It begins with one of the three person agreement prefixes of P11
and continues to suffix position 10, thus encompassing almost all, and almost only, the verbal
derivational morphemes, as depicted in Table 6.7. The exceptional morphemes which prevent
this from being denominated the ‘derivational stem’ are kaa-, the inflectional marker just noted
in P11 and the progressive aspect suffixes in S6, both included in this derivational zone; and the
reflexive in S11 and the deictics in S13, derivational affixes excluded from the zone. Two
subzones are spelled out within the variable affix order area, defined primarily by
morphosyntactic evidence and blocking, as described in the following subsections.
11
Person
Table 6.7 Zone 2 Variable affix ordering
10
Reciprocal
9
Round trip/Pass by
8
Instrumentals
7
Comitative
6
Associative
5
Causatives
4
Locatives
3
Body Parts
2
1
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0
Middle Voice/Inc.
VVVoVoiceVoice/In
Distributive
choative
ROOT
1
Transitivizer
2
3
Habitual/Indef.Obj.
Object
Dative
4
Down
5
Ambulative
6
Progressive
7
Iterative
8
Desiderative
9
Totalitive
10
Meanwhile