The Function of Verb Prefixes in Southwestern Otomí­ (SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 115)

Discusses how Otomí verb prefixes include deixis in their function.

States that a key element to understanding the makeup of Otomí verbs is the role of deixis in the verb and elsewhere in the sentence. Discusses how every independent Otomi sentence is grounded in reality through deixis, and every dependent sentence depends upon deictic grounding in sentences around it.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations

Introduction

1.1 Deixis in Otomí
1.2 The deictic center
1.3 Verbs without prefixes
1.4 Deictic adverbs
1.5 Directional verb suffixes
1.6 Derivational prefixes
1.7 The phonological reduction of verb prefixes
1.8 Augmentation of mutable verb roots
1.9 Interpreting homophonous prefix strings

The Noun Phrase

2.1-2.5 Determiners
2.6 Quantifiers
2.7 Preposed descriptive modifiers
2.8 Postposed modifiers
2.9 Nonactive predicates

Primary Second-order Prefixes

3.1 Present-tense prefixes
3.2 Completive-aspect prefixes
3.3 Future-tense prefixes

Conjunct Second-order Prefixes

4.1 The syntactic distribution of conjunct clauses
4.2 First-person conjunct prefixes
4.3 Second-person conjunct prefixes
4.4 Third-person conjunct prefixes

Third-order Prefixes

5.1 The imperfect prefixes
5.2 Imperfect mí- with primary second-order prefixes
5.3 Imperfect mí- with conjunct second-order prefixes
5.4 The eventline adverb sí-
5.5 The eventline prefix sí-

First-order Prefixes

6.1-6.3 Punctiliar prefixes
6.4-6.6 Durative prefixes
6.7-6.8 Progressive prefixes
6.9 The future perfect prefix
6.10 Person-marking irrealis prefixes

Otomí Text

Index