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However, other combinations of fAch/ and Ajama/
(or Aja/) cannot be analyzed as above. These other
combinations may be divided into two types: those in
which a verbal inflection occurs before /ch/ and those in
which it occurs after /Ach/.

Examples of /ch/ occurring after -i 3+3 Simple

inflection are the following:

Jut.i.ch.ja.w. ‘I think he has come.' (La Paz/Tiahuanaco)
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*Qut.i.ch.ja.ki.w. 'I think he has come.' (Ebbing 1965:209)

*Juta.p.x.i.ch.ja.ki.wa. 'I think they have come.'
~ (Ebbing 1965:209)

The three forms above may tentatively be analyzed as
containing, after the inflection -i 3+3 Simple tense,
the alternative question suffix -cha, a sentence suffix
after which no further suffixation may occur. The /-ja/
which follows must then be interpreted as the root

*ja, a reduced form of *jama 'like', followed optionally
by the independent suffix -ki and the sentence suffix
-wa. This is obviously not a satisfactory analysis in
synchronic terms, as *jama 'like' is not a root today,

and a reduced form *ja would furthermore be the only