440

consonant. If a cluster of /ch/ plus consonant occurs,

/ch/ reduces to /s/ (see 4-3.22.25.2).
6-3.36.12 Structure and distribution

When it occurs with D-2 /iri/ forms, -chi sep-
arates the /iri/ plus contrary-to-fact mark from the rest
of the inflection. Examples of this have been found in

La Paz, Jopoqueri, and Tarata, Peru (near Sitajara).

La Paz Jopoqueri
173 /-iriskchi:ta/ /-irijchi:ta/ (also Tarata)
373 (not elicited) /-irijchi:na/
1-2 /-iriskchisama:na/ /-irijssma:n/
3+1 (not elicited) /-irijchita:na/
34 (not elicited) /-irijchista:na/

In Juli, as indicated earlier, all tenses have
3>4 forms frozen to a preceding /-chi-/ or /-schi-/.
Those frozen to /-chi-/ are homophonous with the Non-
involver 354 forms (except in the case of the Imperative,

with which the Non-involver does not occur).

6-3.36.13 Semantics

Bertonio (1603b:276) called this suffix a con-

ditional or dubitative. He noted that the Aymara tended