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If the possessive suffix -na (see 5-3.31.2) follows the
lp or 2p suffix in Morocomarca, the vowel before the personal
possessive drops by the regular morphophonemic rule for

personal possessives.

[atal.na.n yap.pa.wa. ‘It's my father's field.'
Ip

Tatal.ma.n yap.pa.wa. ‘It's your father's field.'
2p

Tatal.pa.n yap.pa.wa. "It's his/her father's field.'
3p

Tatal.sa.n yap.pa.wa. ‘It's our father's field.'
4p

The order of the rules and the conditioning may be stated

as follows.

Zero complement Conditioning
1. yapu + ~(Poss. --> yap.fa Morphological
ap.ma
yap.pa
ap.sa
2. yap.fia + zero complement --> *yap. np Syntactic

3. *yap.fi + vowel restoration --> yapu.fi Phonological