maquilia

[John Sullivan]

Magnus,
	Wouldn't your examples be, "nimitznomaquilia" or "nimitzmomaquilia", "I hit you (reverential)"? Or "nimitzmaquilia cuamezah (or whatever you use for table)", "I hit your table"?
John

On Nov 10, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Magnus Pharao Hansen wrote:

> Flores Farfán (in cuatreros somos) mentions that in the balsas there is a minimal pair of maka and maga where the one with k is "give" and the one with g is "hit". 
> 
> In Hueyapan they don't generally use maquilia for "hit" - they use plain maca (pronounced [maga] whether it means hit or give) sometimes they use yekmaka to specify its hit. In hueyapan maquilia would be the applicative or the honorific form so that nimitzmaquilia could mean "I something to you(R)" or "I hit something of yours (e.g. your child)". 
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> What I've heard is a tendency that some of the constructions where Spanish has a seeming extra arguments e.g. in anaphrastic passives "se le parece", "se me vino la idea", the Nahuatl constructions uses the applicative to have the same number of overt arguments as in the Spanish equivalent so you'd have "kinexilia" "he looks like him" or "onechahxilih in idea" - instead of plain "ihkion nesi" or "onikpix in idea". I don't have any good examples in texts at hand - ill send you some if I find ones
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> Magnus
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> On 10 November 2010 12:21, John Sullivan <idiez at me.com> wrote:
> Magnus,
> 	Do you have some other example from Hueyapan. I'd really like to see if there are parallels in the Huasteca.
> John
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