Elements between compound verbs in Colonial Valley Zapotec

Several words that function as single words in most modern Valley Zapotec languages are compounds, often with the word lachi 'heart'.  For example, a verb like r-ielilachi is 'believe' in several modern languages.

The general structure in modern languages is Asp[Verb-lachi](=adv clitics)

In the Colonial texts, we see a number of elements that may appear between the final root in the compound and the initial material.  So we instead see a structure like

Asp-Verb (=clitics) (other elements?) lachi

The following examples show some of the items that are between the two parts.
a.) The negative clitic =ti
This example shows up in the phrase aca xi penni=ti lachi=a 'I have not paid attention'

Aguero 1666 p. 6

b.) a quantifier like quitobi 'all'

This is in the phrase Coxenni quitobi lachi=a 'I have entrusted all'

Aguero 1666 p. 6

c.) adverbs like chahui 'well'
d.) emphatic clitics like =lij and =ca

Both of these possibilities are shown in the following example:

Aguero 1666 p 2

[to be continued]

Comparatives in Triqui, 2

In a previous post, I mentioned comparatives in Copala Triqui.

The following example shows the comparative doj between the two parts of the compound verb niha' rá 'be happy'.  Compare that with the example in the previous post (repeated below) which shows the doj after the second part of the verb compound.  I think this is because niha' rá and  'yaj suun are in different classes of verb compounds.

Comparatives in Triqui

I was interested by the following example of a comparative in Copala Triqui.   The general structure for these is

V/Adj doj... rihaan NP

where doj is the 'more' morpheme and rihaan NP is the standard of comparison.

What's intriguing here is that the doj appears after the second part of a verbal compound: