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6-2.25 - .da- ~ -ka- ~ -k"a- incompletive, ~ Xar ~ -ga-
completive

The incompletive and the completive may occur
before and/or after -p- plural. They usually do not
co-occur on a stem; when they do, the incompletive pre-

cedes the completive.
6-2.25.1 - das ~ -ka- ~ -k"a- incompletive

This suffix must be distinguished from the par-
tially homophonous -ja- ~ -ka- verbalizer (5-3.41.1)
and -ja- Class 1 verbal derivational suffix (6-2.12).
The form /-ka-/ occurs in most dialects, but not in
Corque and Jopoqueri, which instead have /-ja-/.

In Salinas, a morphophonemic rule (4-3.22.23) reduces
-ka- to /j/ before consonant-requiring suffixes. The
allomorph /-k"a-/ occurred sporadically instead of /-ka-/
in the speech on one Salinas source. Both /-ka-/ and
/-ja-/ occur in Calacala and Morocomarca, where it
appears that the two morphs may have separate morpho-
phonemic status, -ja- ‘ahead of‘ and -ka- incompletive.

This brings us to the semantics of this suffix.
In some contemporary Aymara dialects the suffix usually

translates ‘ahead of' when it occurs directly on a root.

ap. ka. fia ‘to carry ahead of someone' (La Paz)

apa.fa ‘to carry'