cuatemitoc

[R. Joe Campbell]

MY SERVER SLIPPED:  I thought that I was replying both to John and the 
Nahuat-l group, but I checked and saw that this message went only to John,
so here is a carbon copy of it (risking a certain amount of 
unintelligibility with a phrase like "carbon copy", but we still "dial"
someone up to talk in this push-button age).

Joe

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John,

     Your question caused me to oninocuatatacac quite a bit.  I still don't have 
an answer, but I *do* have a question about verbs like "cua:te:mitoc" in 
Chicontepec Nahuatl.
     In "older" Nahuatl (sometimes called "classical" or even "Classical"), the 
"causative -a" suffix can be added to intransitive verbs and no deletion of the 
verb stem final vowel takes place (e.g., aqui-a, capa:ni-a,
chipi:ni-a, coyo:ni-a, pozo:ni-a, tlami-a, tzili:ni-a, xiti:ni-a, etc.), but 
when the causative -a suffix is added to certain other intranstive verb, the 
verb stem final vowel is deleted (e.g., coto:ni --> coto:na, mani -- mana,
te:mi --> te:ma, tlapa:ni --> tlapa:na, to:mi --> to:ma, etc.).
    In Chicontepec Nahuatl, does the second set of cases not occur?   That is,
does the addition of causative -a result in all "-ia" transitive verbs and no 
verbs that end in "consonant-a"?

    I label the two classes of causative "caus08" and "caus09", respectively, 
and I've included some examples below as reminding questions.

Iztayohmeh,


Joe


Stems that take Caus08

aqui
calaqui
capa:ni
xaxa:ni
chacua:ni
chala:ni
chapa:ni
chipi:ni
chito:ni
chopo:ni
como:ni
coxo:ni
coyo:ni
cuala:ni
cuepo:ni
cuetla:ni
cueyo:ni
hualani
huito:ni
ilaqui
molo:ni
o:li:ni
paya:ni *
petla:ni
peto:ni
pexo:ni
peyo:ni
pitzi:ni
polo:ni
poto:ni
pozo:ni
queloni
tecui:ni
tei:ni
ti:li:ni
tlami
tlatzi:ni
tomo:ni *
topo:ni
tzapi:ni
tzicui:ni
tzili:ni
tzomo:ni
tzopi:ni
tzopo:ni
tzotla:ni
tzoyo:ni
xahua:ni
xama:ni
xini
xiti:ni
xittomo:ni



Stems that take Caus09

coto:ni
huazomi
huitomi
ixtla:hui
mani
paya:ni *
poxahui
paya:hui
te:mi
tepe:hui
tlapa:ni
tlapohui
to:mi
tomo:ni *
toxomi
toya:hui
tzaya:ni
tzopi


Both Caus08 and Caus09??

paya:ni *
tomo:ni *
paya:ni *
tomo:ni *


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