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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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6.5.2.1 Valence-changing subzone. This section deals with both valence-increasing <strong>and</strong><br />

valence-decreasing <strong>morphology</strong>. <strong>The</strong> FM <strong>Totonac</strong> verb has a rich set <strong>of</strong> applicatives, including<br />

the instrumentals, the comitative, the dative, <strong>and</strong> sometimes the locatives <strong>and</strong> BPPs, as well as<br />

the associative, which can increase the valence <strong>of</strong> the verb (see §5.4). <strong>The</strong>se valence-increasing<br />

morphemes are found from P8 to S3, in effect exp<strong>and</strong>ing the causativized stem, as shown in<br />

Table 6.8.<br />

Table 6.8 Valence-increasing subzone<br />

8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3<br />

Instrumentals<br />

Comitative<br />

Associative<br />

Causatives<br />

Locatives<br />

Body Parts<br />

Middle Voice/Inceptive<br />

Distributive<br />

ROOT<br />

Something more may be said about the coherence <strong>of</strong> the valence-increasing subzone: with a<br />

single exception, it includes all <strong>of</strong> the affixes that <strong>of</strong>ten lexicalize with a root to yield a new verb<br />

with non-compositional semantics. <strong>The</strong> exception, DOWN, can be included in the subzone by<br />

exp<strong>and</strong>ing it by one suffix position, to position 4. I have no examples <strong>of</strong> affixes outside this zone<br />

being involved in forming non-transparent lexical items, while most <strong>of</strong> the morphemes in the<br />

zone more or less frequently do so. In spite <strong>of</strong> the evidence <strong>of</strong> special lexicalization linking<br />

DOWN in S4 with the affixes <strong>of</strong> this subzone, other facts suggest that the prefixes out to position<br />

10 must attach as a block prior to any suffixes beyond the dative in position 3. This will be<br />

addressed in the next sub-section.<br />

<strong>The</strong> valence-increasing span includes some <strong>of</strong> the valence-decreasing affixes as well: the middle<br />

voice/inceptive marker <strong>and</strong> the indefinite object/habitual suffix. Exp<strong>and</strong>ing it by two prefix<br />

positions (to the reciprocal in P10) enables it to include all <strong>of</strong> the valence-changing affixes<br />

except for the reflexive, which interacts tightly with the inflectional affixes <strong>and</strong> is located toward<br />

the outer edge <strong>of</strong> the derived stem. <strong>The</strong> valence-changing subzone, then, includes all prefixes out<br />

to P10 <strong>and</strong> the suffixes forming part <strong>of</strong> the causativized stem to S3.<br />

! ##+!<br />

Transitivizer<br />

Habitual/Indefinite Object<br />

Dative

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