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This dissertation constitutes a descriptive grammar of the phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac that highlights typologically unusual phenomena of theoretical interest. Filomeno Mata (FM) Totonac is a member of the Totonac-Tepehua family (eastern Mexico), spoken in and around the municipality whose name it borrows in the state of Veracruz. It is a polysynthetic, highly agglutinating, head-marking variety with VSO word order and complex verbal morphology that has not previously been described by linguists. This grammar is based on fieldwork conducted by the author between 2003 and 2009. Some of the grammatical phenomena described herein which may be of interest to theoreticians and typologists include:• Glottalization or aspiration and vowel devoicing to mark prosodic boundaries • Postlexical nasal epenthesis at word-word and clitic-stem boundaries between a vowel and a stop or affricate• Stress shift as a marker of interrogative utterances, which may occur on the verb or other sentencial elements• A large set of ideophones marked by reduplication and sound symbolism in the categories of sound and manner of motion adverbials, colors, odors/flavors, and descriptive adjec

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Author

Teresa Ann McFarland

Publisher

Dissertation Publishing

Published

2009

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language