439

6-3.35.22 Dialectal patterning

Leaving aside the 3+3 allomorph /-tayna/, which
all dialects except Morocomarca attest, two main dialect
groups may be identified for this tense: dialects having
forms based on /-tay-/ (Juli, Socca, Sitajara, and prob-
ably Calacoa, for which a paradigm was not obtained)

and dialects with forms based on /-ta:/ (all the rest).
6-3.36 Compound tenses

Paradigms for La Paz for these tenses were
given by Hardman et al. (1975:3.222-23). For the
present study they were not elicited in paradigms but
did occur in texts. They consist of -chi Non-Involver
or -pacha Inferential followed by tense inflection,
except in the case of 3+3 S forms which consist of

-chi or -pacha alone.
6-3.36.1 -chi Non-Involver

This suffix enters into compounds with the
Simple, Future, Desiderative, Remonstrative, and Remote

tenses.
6-3.36.11 Morphophonemics

-chi requires a preceding consonant. Its vowel

drops if the following suffix requires a preceding