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(22) DIMENSION
lanka' 'big, tall'
lhma:n 'long'
PHYSICAL PROPERTY
palha' 'hard'
chichi 'hot'
ci'ci 'warm'
xku'ta 'sour'
sa'qsi' 'sweet'
Ihkaka spicy'
xu':n 'bitter'
AGE
sa:sti' 'new'
VALUE
la:n 'pretty'
tla:n good'
qama 'tasty'
Notice that sound symbolism, a feature of the domain, is present in the items for
'hot' and 'warm'. I take up the issue below in §3.3, both because it shows that, typo-
logically, in the domain of adjectives there tend to be phonosemantic processes
(see Chapter i by Dixon; Ameka 1991, for Ewe; Chapter 3 on Manange; Chapter 13
on Qiang; Chapter 14 on Lao; Chapter 10 on Wolof; plus Chapter 15, the overview
by Hajek), and, more importantly, because it provides another argument for adjec-
tives in Totonacan.
3.2. ADJECTIVE-SHAPE ADJECTIVES
Mere inspection of terms that are syntactically adjectives reveals certain recur-
rent patterns which suggest derived forms, although frequently the putative base
does not appear in the lexicon, synchronically (see Levy 1992 for details). Three
processes are apparent: reduplication of the last syllable of the putative base, and
two suffixes, which harmonize both vocalically and consonantally with the base:
-(ri)k/qVoc ('), and -IVoc. These processes are not productive synchronically. In (23),
(24), and (25) are examples of the morphological processes, grouped by semantic
classes.
(23) COLOUR
(a) Reduplicated last syllable
snapapa 'white'
saqaqa 'whitish' (pastel colour which shows a lot of
white)
smukuku 'yellow'
Ihmukuku 'yellow, orange'
pi'nini 'red'