Um, how many object prefix slots, again?

[Doug Barr]

OK, so I'm struggling with verbs, and I read in the archives that the  
verb only has two object prefix slots, but I've only seen one used up  
to now. Then I read in *Rules of the Aztec Language* and on a website  
(http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/nahuatl/nahugram.html#sec5) that  
there is another prefix -im- that can be used for third person plural  
(animate) objects if necessary. Okay, that's the second slot. Got it.

Then I look more closely at the example given in the book,  
"Xine:chintlacualtili in nochcahua:n," "Feed my sheep for me." I  
parse that as "xi-ne:ch-in-TLA-cua-lti-li," "you.imperative-(for).me- 
them-something-eat-[causative]-[applicative]," and am very confused  
by the presence of "-tla-" in the verb - not so much what it's doing  
(providing a non-specific object for "cua") as that it seems to be  
occupying a third object prefix slot. Since "cua" occurs without  
"tla-" I'm guessing that it isn't an intrinsic part of the verb like  
the first syllable of "tlazohtla" - so what gives?

Tlazohcamati again,
Doug 
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