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The following clearly appears to have -ja ‘quantity’:
uk.ja tagi ‘a great deal' (Sitajara)

Expressions of time based on demonstratives in-

clude the following:

aka.t g"ipa.ru (La Paz)
jich'a.t k!a:.ru.x ‘from now on' (Jopoquer i)
jich'a.t k"uy.sa.ru (La Paz)
“aka.t. jama.tak 'all of a sudden’ (La Paz)

(Wexler 1967:455)

Interestingly, k"uy.sa.ru was said by a source who re-
jected k"uyu as a demonstrative, showing that a dialect
may reject a root form but use a derived form.

An expression of space using demonstratives is
k"ur.sa.r ak.sa.r ‘back and forth' (La Paz). The ex-
pression k"a: alaxa ‘heaven' is used in Calacoa. Other
dialects have alax.pacha (or arax.pacha) or silu (from
Spanish cielo) for ‘heaven’.

By far the most common demonstrative in all dia-
lects is uka, which occurs alone and in derived forma-

tions as a syntactic linker and summarizer.

uka.t ‘then, afterwards’