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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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stress may fall include the enclitic, all suffixes, the root, <strong>and</strong> all prefixes out to position 13. 9 Thus<br />

the stress zone <strong>of</strong> the verb (all stressable <strong>and</strong> stress-assigning morphemes) includes all verbal<br />

affixes except the proclitics in P19-15 <strong>and</strong> the mood <strong>and</strong> tense markers in P14. If the unstressable<br />

mood/tense prefixes were analyzed as proclitics, the stress zone would be more cohesive,<br />

including the entire verb with the exception <strong>of</strong> any proclitics. However, the evidence for their<br />

status is mixed. <strong>The</strong> affix-clitic distinction, which is an issue with other outer morphemes, is<br />

discussed further in §6.5.3.2. Examples 39 <strong>and</strong> 40 show the grammaticality <strong>of</strong> stress on a prefix<br />

in P13 but not on one in P14.<br />

Table 6.11 Stress zone<br />

P13<br />

Person Agree.<br />

P12<br />

Counterexpect.<br />

39) kísnat"i&<br />

P11<br />

Person Agree.<br />

/kin-snat-li&/<br />

Zone 2<br />

Root <strong>and</strong> affixes<br />

1OBJ-embrace-PFTV<br />

‘he embraced me’<br />

40) kasnátli&<br />

/ka-snat-li&/<br />

IRR-embrace-PFTV<br />

‘embrace him!’<br />

S12<br />

Aspect<br />

S13<br />

Deictics<br />

S14<br />

Aspect/Person<br />

Clitics<br />

S15<br />

Adverbials<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is no evidence as to the sequence in which the mostly inflectional affixes <strong>of</strong> this stress<br />

subzone attach, whether first the prefix positions 11-13, or first the suffix positions 12-14 <strong>and</strong><br />

enclitic position 15. A st<strong>and</strong>ard assumption would be that the inflectional prefixes <strong>and</strong> suffixes<br />

9 Note that an affix must have a full vowel with a root node to receive stress; suffixes lacking<br />

vowel nodes such as deictics –c'i" <strong>and</strong> –pi", person markers –ni", -w!, -ti", perfective –li", <strong>and</strong> the<br />

adverbial –ts’! may never be stressed when word-final.<br />

! #'.!

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