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rule in Salinas reduces the /k/ of /-ka-/ incompletive
to /j/ in certain environments (see 4-3.22.23). Certain
dialects usually have the incompletive (or less often,
the completive) suffix in negative expressions, while
other dialects do not (see 7-4.5). With respect to
inventory and meaning, Calacoa alone has the apparently
unitary suffix -wja-.

No formal attempt was made in this research to
determine whether all verbal derivational suffixes occur
in all dialects or whether those that occur have the same
or different meanings. However, it appears that the
meanings of Class 2 suffixes are usually predictable,
while the meanings of Class 1 suffixes vary according
to the root, stem, or theme they occur on. Sometimes
a stem containing the same root and derivational suffix(es)
was found to gloss differently in one dialect than in
another. Additional examples of such stems will be
found in 8-3.2, but a more thorough determination of
regional variation in this respect will require more

research.
6-5.12.2 Inflectional suffixes

Most variation in verbal inflectional suffixes
is in phonological Shape attributable to instability
of vowels and nonstop consonants and to a lesser extent,

of stops; the latter also vary in presence or absence of