[Nahuat-l] Tloc, nahuac, tech, tlan

[Campbell, R. Joe]

Nocnihuan,

   The things we call "postpositions" or "relational nouns" obviously 
don't all follow the same distributional map, so I have put a rough one 
together.  "Rough" means that I consider just a draft, so I won't mind 
having mistakes drawn to my attention.

   I include -nahuac in the list in spite of the fact that I know that 
it is really a noun with attached -c(o).

   Category 5 (occurs after a noun) has a neutral label in order to 
avoid calling fish or fowl (i.e., noun compound or noun suffix).

   Obviously, these categories hint strongly at the noun-like behavior 
of these objects of our attention, which goes in the opposite direction 
from their frequent spatial and temporal function in the language.

As Arnie said, "I'll be back."

Joe

  "postpositions"

1   takes a "verber" suffix
2   embeds in -yo(tl)
3   takes absolutive
4   takes a possessive prefix
5   occurs after a noun
6   embeds in -eh (e.g., tloqueh) [not included yet in the chart]

           x = yes

        1       2       3       4       5

can             x       x       x       x

co              x                       x

huan    x                       x

huic    x                       x       x

ican    x                       x

nahuac  x       x       x       x       x

pa              x                       ?

pan     x       x       x       x       x

pampa   x       x               x

tech    x       x       x       x       x

tlan    x       x       x       x       x

tloc    x                       x

tzalan  x       x       x       x       x