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of clarity and simplicity all but the inflectional suf-
fixes have here been stripped away.

For general rules concerning the morphophonemics
of verbal inflectional suffixes, see 4-2.1 and 4-2.2.
Additional rules specific to each tense and/or to indi-
vidual person/tense suffixes will be given in the section
on the tense in question. In the figures accompanying
the tenses the morphophonemics of suffixes will be shown
only in the case of exceptions. If a final /a/ is in
parentheses, it means it usually drops when there is no
subsequent suffixation. If a final /n/ or /na/ is in
parentheses, it means its presence varies with its

absence.
6-3.2 Verbal inflectional distinctive features

Hardman (1975) has reconstructed the person
system of the Jaqi languages using as bases the per-
sonal pronouns, the personal possessive suffixes, and
two verb tenses, the Simple (Present in Jaqaru and Kawki)
and Future. Person is marked in these and other tenses
by submorphemic recurrent partials. Other partials are

associated with tense.
6-3.21 Person markers

Following are the partials associated with verb

subject person and verb complement person, incorporating