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always occurred preceded by a verbal derivational suffix
or one of the compounding suffixes: -chi Non-Involver,
-pacha Inferential, or -iri. Forms with /-ya-/ occurred
more readily without preceding suffixes.

When preceded by -ja- ~ -ka- incompletive, this
tense translates as a past progressive. This use has
occurred in La Paz, Morocomarca, Salinas, and Jopoqueri.

Examples of 1+3 with the verb chura.fia ‘to give' are

chur.ka.:t"a (Morocomarca)

chur. ka.:ta ~ chur.ka.ya:ta (San Andrés de Machaca)

Chur.ja.t.wa. (Jopoqueri)

Yo le estaba dando. 'I was giving to him/her. '

Apart from this fairly common usage, this tense
(especially the forms without /-ya-/) occurs most often
in the speech of elderly persons, for example in discuss-

ing their illnesses.

3+1 Kap"iyaspirina.w riskansa.y.ita:na.

'Cafeaspirina eased my pain.' (Compi)

(-ya- causative)

3>1 kama.cha.ta.:.rak.pacha.:t"a

‘what could have happened to me' (Sitajara)