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133 S: sa:.tia 'T said to him/her/them'

17-3 RDK: sa.:t'a 'I said to him/her/them' (Sitajara,
~ Jopoqueri)
1-3 S with /-ja-/ incompletive: Jani.w sa:.j.t.ti.

'I didn't say to him/her/
them.' (Jopoqueri)

In the third example above, it is clear that the vowel
length goes with the verb root before the derivational
suffix /-ja-/ (which usually takes a preceding consonant).
If the vowel length went with the tense, it would go
between the /j/ and the /t/. 13 F with /-ja-/ also has
vowel length on the verb root.

Another dialect that avoids initial consonant
clusters with sa.ma is Calacoa. Like Jopoqueri, Calacoa
does not prepose /si/ or /ji/, but unlike Jopoqueri,
it does not lengthen the root vowel. Instead, Calacoa
forms occur with the root sa- followed by verbal deri-
vationals or the initial /s/ followed by -iri, when
there would otherwise be an initial cluster.

Only the Simple and Future tenses were formally
elicited for this verb, but many examples of other tenses

occurred in texts.

6-4.] sa.fa with Simple tense (see Figure 6-9)

Some comments about Simple forms have already

vod

been made above. In La Paz and Juli the alternation of