: David Beck
: Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionary
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110238235
: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 284.20
:
: Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen
: English
: 869
: Wasserzeichen/DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: PDF
< >TheUpper Necaxa Totonac Dictionarydocuments a previously undescribed Totonac-Tepehua language of Mexico. Comprising 9,000 entries, it includes part-of-speech information, phonetic transcriptions, grammatical notes, literal morpheme-by-morpheme glosses, illustrative sentences, and cross-references to derived forms, as well as a short grammatical sketch and supplementary audio material supplied online.



< >David Beck, University of Alberta, Canada.
Contents8
Acknowledgements10
Chapter 1. Introduction12
1. Upper Necaxa Totonac alphabet14
2. Structure of a dictionary entry15
3. Note on head words17
4. Supplementary material on DVD18
5. Abbreviations and symbols21
Chapter 2. Grammatical notes24
1. Verbal derivational morphology24
2. Verbal inflection27
2.1. Person-marking28
2.2. Tense, mood, and aspect30
2.2.1. Tense-marking31
2.2.2. Mood-marking31
2.2.3. Aspect and aspectual paradigms32
2.3. Voice44
2.4. Reciprocals45
2.5. Stative verbs46
2.6. Verbal quasi-inflectional morphology49
3. Nominal derivational morphology50
4. Nominal inflection and quasi-inflection56
4.1. Possession and inherently possessed nouns56
4.2. Number57
4.3. Classifiers58
4.4. Bodyparts and meronymns60
5. Adjectives62
6. Adverbs and ideophones63
7. Determiners and deictic adverbs65
8. Pronouns66
9. Conjunctions66
10. Particles and interjections67
11. Compounding67
Chapter 3. Upper Necaxa Totonac dictionary70
Chapter 4. Sample texts740
1. Aktzini740
2. Talikanataho752
Appendices770
A. Reconstructed roots770
B. Glossary of Spanish terms773
C. Numerals779
D. Classifiers780
English-Upper Necaxa index782
Bibliography866