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/-smach-/ La Paz/Tiahuanaco

/-smachja-/ La Paz/Tiahuanaco

The following occurred in examples which Vdsquez (La Paz/
Tiahuanaco) reported having heard; their geographic origin

is unknown:

/-chja-/
/-sja-/
/-,,sjamach-/ (also Ebbing 1965:223)

The following was cited by Ebbing (1965:223):
*7- ysamach-/

The meaning of these is expressed by a number of glosses,
including 'I think', ‘it seems that', ‘it looks as if',
‘it looks like', ‘it is likely that'. They are here
classified as verbal derivationals because they occur
as units after Class 2 verbal derivationals and before
independent or verbal inflectional suffixes.

Bertonio (1603b) and Ebbing (1965) have pro-
vided evidence which permits speculation about the
probable derivation of some of these forms. (In the

following analyses, presumed underlying morphemic, or