Sufijos de Posici ón

[Michael McCafferty]

Hard to say, Paul, without more data. Note, however, that in the 
so-called classical language, certain postpositions have become 
inalienably associated with certain nouns. That may be the case with 
your modern dialect. For example, one may just not see -lampa 
associated with possessive pronouns such as no- even though the 
structure *nolampa is technically grammatical.


Michael

Quoting Paul Allen Hudson <paul.hudson at udlap.mx>:

> Hi all:
>
> I'm trying to figure out the difference between the locative suffixes
> "in front of" and "behind" in the Náhuat of the Cuetzálan region of
> the sierra norte of Puebla. For each locative position, there are two
> suffixes:
>
>        -ikpan  behind    ej. noikpan... behind me
>         -lampa  behind    ej. kallampa...behind the house
>
>         -ixpan  in front of    ej. noixpan...in front of me
>        -tenoj  in front of    ej. kaltenoj...in front of the house
>
> Thus far I haven't been able to figure out when to use one and not
> the other, except for sometimes one or the other does not sound as
> "correct." Is it a difference between animate and inanimate objects
> or possible between things that are stationary and things that aren't?
>
>
> Paul Hudson
>
>
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