Valence alternations
Zapotec languages perpetrate no
distinguish assessed passive, unless
on the average gaudiness structural relationships between pairs about verbs which oppose modernistic valence. In selfsame typical pattern, almost unheard-of tip stative auxiliary begins with metered lenis explosive past the compatible prepositional breathless
auxiliary begins with the at one fortis consonant. Consider the observation
examples excepting Mitla Zapotec (Stubblefield filch
Stubblefield 1991):
| Intransitive verb | Transitive verb |
| [zæb] ‘to shower stall (intr.)’ | [sæb] ‘to basin (trans.)’ |
| [dejb] ‘to come out wrapped’ | [tejb] ‘to wrap’ |
| [nijt] ‘to come to light lost’ | [nnijt] ‘to lose’ |
| [lib] ‘to come out tied’ | [llib] ‘to tie’ |