[Aztlan] Aztec poetry

[Campbell, R. Joe]

Johntzin,

   I may be mistaken, so if I am, color my face red and straighten me out.
But I think the answer to "who's there?" has two problems:

  1. instead of ending in "...tl", shouldn't it end in "...lli"?
     I don't know of any form of a patientive noun formed from
     (tla)[i]xtlahui... that takes a "tl" ending; the common ending
     is "lli".

  2.  Amatlacuilolitquitcatlaxtlahuitl
>                      ^

      The marked "t" is a mistaken insertion;
     "...itquica..." is a so-called preterit nominalization of "itqui"
     'to carry'

All the best,

Joe


Quoting John Major Jenkins <kahib at ix.netcom.com>:

> Wendy,
> Also, make sure you check the links to: http://red-coral.net/Amer.html
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> And here's my favorite Nahuatl knock knock joke:
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> Knock knock
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> Who's there?
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> Amatlacuilolitquitcatlaxtlahuitl
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org
> [mailto:aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org] On Behalf Of Wendy Bacon
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 8:56 AM
> To: Aztlan news Aztlan news group
> Subject: [Aztlan] Aztec poetry
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> My teenaged son is studying Latin America, and his teacher is
> starting with poetry by Latin American authors.  I thought it might
> be interesting to throw in a little poetry by indigenous Latin
> Americans.  I do have a few references in books to Yukatek and Nauatl
> poetry, but this is the on-line generation.  I've found an indigenous
> poetry website, but wasn't impressed.  Does anybody happen to know of
> some internet resources for native Latin American poetry with good
> scholarly underpinnings?
>
> Wendy
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> Wendy J. Bacon, PhD
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Pennsylvania
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