The Function of Verb Prefixes in Southwestern Otomi Book

	Preface
	Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
1.1	Deixis in Otomi	2
1.2	The deictic center	5
1.3	Verbs without prefixes	6
1.4	Deictic adverbs	7
1.5	Directional verb suffixes	9
1.6	Derivational prefixes	9
1.7	The phonological reduction of verb prefixes	10
1.8	Augmentation of mutable verb roots	16
1.9	Interpreting homophonous prefix strings	19
2	The Noun Phrase	23
2.1-5	Determiners	23
2.6	Quantifiers	30
2.7	Preposed descriptive modifiers	31
2.8	Postposed modifiers	31
2.9	Nonactive predicates	33
3	Primary Second-order Prefixes	41
3.1	Present-tense prefixes	42
3.2	Completive-aspect prefixes	43
3.3	Future-tense prefixes	44
4	Conjunct Second-order Prefixes	49
4.1	The syntactic distribution of conjunct clauses	50
4.2	First-person conjunct prefixes	54
4.3	Second-person conjunct prefixes	56
4.4	Third-person conjunct prefixes	59
5	Third-order Prefixes	63
5.1	The imperfect prefixes	63
5.2	Imperfect mi- with primary second-order prefixes	66
5.3	Imperfect mi- with conjunct second-order prefixes	67
5.4	The eventline adverb si	68
5.5	The eventline prefix si	70
6	First-order Prefixes	75
6.1-3	Punctiliar prefixes	76
6.4-6	Durative prefixes	83
6.7-8	Progressive prefixes	89
6.9	The future perfect prefix	92
6.10	Person-marking irrealis prefixes	94
7	Otomi Text	97
	Index	103