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especially for 1+2, 2+1, and 2+3 (the suffixes involving
the first and second persons in the relationship of
subject/complement, or the second person as subject).
However, aS pointed out by Hardman, in La Paz Aymara

the overlap is not to be interpreted as indicating an
incomplete Imperative paradigm filled with Future forms,
as the Imperative is morphosyntactically marked by a
morphophonemic rule: When stated, the subject of an
Imperative verb drops the final vowel and carries no
sentence suffix, except in the case of 3>2, where the
subject 3p must retain the final vowel and carry a

sentence suffix (Hardman et al. 1975:3.226). Example:

Jum = jupa.r chura.m. ‘You give it to him/her/them. '
2p = 3p give 2+3
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As a person subject often is not expressed by
a noun or pronoun in an Aymara sentence (since it is
already expressed in the person/tense suffix on the verb),
in this research it was not always possible to elicit
an expressed pronoun subject which might be checked for
presence or absence of its final vowel. In Sitajara,
the only dialect for which pronoun subject forms were
obtained with the Imperative for most person/tense
suffixes, the vowel drops for 1+3, 353 and 4+3 but is

retained and followed by a sentence suffix for 1+2, 3-1

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