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In normal speech contexts the vowel drops unless a pause

separates the zero compiement from the verb.

. uwija ... ana.k.t mna.x. ‘. .. sheep... I was
sheep herd 1-3 Ip herding.’ (Sitajara)
S

The following shows retention of the final stem vowel

before -ya final suffix:

Uma.ma.y wax.t'a.si.fani. ‘Let's invite someone to have
water 2p —s invite 4+3 some of your water.' (La Paz/
F Compi)

5-3.4 Class 3 suffixes (verbalizers)

There are four noun suffixes that verbalize noun
roots, stems, and themes: two defective verbalizers and
two full verbalizers. The full verbalizers create a
normal verb stem that may be inflected for all verb
person/tense suffixes (6.3). The defective verbalizers
take the four persons as subjects only, not as comple-
ments, and are also restricted in the verbal deriva-

tionals they may take.
5-3.41 Defective verbalizers

These are of very frequent occurrence.