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partial boundaries are shown for clarity even though the
forms are synchronically unitary.)

As indicated in 5-3.32.3, a free root * jama
occurs after an inflected verb in a sentence cited by
Bertonio (1603b:204). In the following example (Bertonio
1603b:104) * Jama occurs followed by /cha/, perhaps the
verbal derivational suffix -cha- which may verbalize noun

roots.

*Chura.sina jama.cha.sma. ‘It seems to me that I gave it
42 to you.'
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A more literal translation might be 'I having given to
you, like’ as -sina is a suffix which turns a verb root
or stem into a subordinated verb (a kind of nominalization;
see 7-4.22.1). In the above example, although the verbal
inflectional suffix -sma 1+2 Simple tense occurs on
*jama.cha-, the relation of subject and complement is
actually tied to the verb root chura-. This indicates
that the whole phrase functions as a syntactic and
morphological unit. With corrected morphophonemics it
would be *chura.sin.jama.cha.sma. In this analysis the
suffix -cha- reverbalizes the nominalized theme
*chura.sin.jama, permitting it then to take a verbal

inflection.