The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

2.7.2.1.1 Progressive aspect stress. The progressive aspect is associated with stress on the
penultimate underlying syllable, regardless of which PROG suffix is involved. The progressive
markers are –paa with 2 nd person subject, -maana with 3 rd plural subjects, and –maa elsewhere.
Since the progressive markers occur in suffix position 6 of 15, many other non-stress-assigning
suffixes may follow them, none of which affect the penult stress pattern. Only the presence of a
person agreement morpheme or the adverbial =kú’u" can relocate stress.
The second person allomorph –paa is never word-final; it is always followed by the 2 nd subject
singular suffix –ti", which assigns stress two syllables preceding itself (as does PFTV -li"; see
§2.7.2.1.2), or the 2 nd subject plural suffix –titi", which assigns stress to the preceding stem
syllable (as do the other person agreement suffixes). In other Totonac varieties, -na is a plural
person marker, but in FM Totonac, it only occurs in the 3 rd plural progressive suffix –maana,
which I therefore analyze as a single morpheme.
174)/paati-nan-maa/ 175) /taaskux-paa-ti&/
suffer-HAB-PROG work-PROG2-2SUB.sg
[paatináma] [taaskúxpaat%i&]
‘he is suffering’ ‘you are working’
176)/ta-min-maana/ 177) /lii-c"iiwinan-maa-wa&/
3SUB.pl-come-PROG3 INST-talk-PROG-1pl
[tamimáana] [liic"iiwinamáaw]
‘they are coming’ ‘we are talking about it’
178)/s"-ta-#tata-maana-para/ 179) /s"-k-siit-maa-qo’o/
PAST-3Sub.pl-sleep-PROG3-ITER PAST-1SUB-cut-PROG-TOT
[s"ta#tatamaanapá] [s"aksiitmaaqó’o&]
‘they were sleeping again’ ‘I was finishing cutting it’
180)/s"-qas"pat-paa-pi&-ti&/
PAST-hear2-PROG2-THERE2-2SUB.sg
[s"qas"patpáap%i&]
‘you were listening over there’
2.7.2.1.2 Perfect aspect stress. The perfect aspect suffix –niit!, which occurs in suffix position
12, is associated with a penultimate stress pattern. Thus stress often falls on its first syllable: -
níit!. This is true even when it optionally shortens phonologically to –nii, as is common. It can
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