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The Phonology of -ɩya and -owa Verbs in Tetelcingo Aztec

by David Tuggy
(1979, ms)

Page 1 of this manuscript was missing. It must have contained the title, perhaps a brief explanatory introduction, and Sections 1 and 1.1, which clearly are introducing Class Ia verbs. Table 1 was on the page: it would probably have been something like the following, as representative of the pattern for these verbs.
kɩ-maka
him-hit		 hits him         kɩ-maka-k
him-hit-pret		 he hit him
kɩ-maka-kɩ
him-hit-pl.pret		 they hit him (past) kɩ-maka-s
him-hit-fut		 he will hit him
kɩ-maka-ya
him-hit-impf		 he was hitting him kɩ-maka-lo
him-hit-hon		 hon hits him
to-mo-makɩ-lɩy-a
thou-refl-hit-applic-pres		 you hon hit him

Table 1

Footnote 7 confirms that the verb used in Table 1 was maka, and that it was glossed ‘hit’ rather than ‘give (it) to’ (another meaning of the stem).

Footnotes 1-4 came from Page 1; they deal with 1) Where Tetelcingo Aztec is spoken, and acknowledgements, 2) The alphabet and its phonetic realizations, with the feature matrices assumed in writing the rules, 3) the fact that stems are cited in their 3rd person singular forms minus any affixes, and 4) the abbreviations used in the paper.

Discussion would have noted that, given the identification of the morphemes involved, everything about the paradigm in  Table 1 is straightforward, except for the change from the stem-final a to ɩ in the form tomomakɩlɩya. This can be attributed to ... [go on to page 2]


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