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The Highland Chontal of Tequistlatecan has a complex system of verbal prefix system. According to Gregory Richter, the author of "Highland Chontal Morphology: Some New Perspectives", the current morphological structure for Highland Chontal is that there are distintct verb classes and they each have a set of corresponding prefixes. sg=singular

pl=plural

rec=recent

This table shows the changes in the paradigm of /inu/ (run) when appended to the particle /l/ (when). sg=singular

pl=plural

NPST=nonpast

Morphological structure: VERB--> (NPST-) (PREFIX-) ROOT (-SUFFIX)

The tables above show the one to one correspondence between segments of a prefix and its underlying representation.