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-chi NI. In Salinas /-raj-/ occurs before consonant-

 

requiring verbal inflectional suffixes; /-raji/ or
/-rak"i/ occurs before vowel-requiring inflectional
suffixes; /-raji/, /-raki/, /-ra:/ and /-ra/ alternate
freely word-finally on interrogatives. In Calacala
and Morocomarca /-raji/ and /-raki/ both occur.

In Sitajara /-raki/ and /-raji/ are in free varia-
tion medially before verbal inflections; the allomorph
/-rk/ occurred once before verbal inflection; and /-ray/
also occurred before the final suffix -sa although a
homophonous /-ray/ is the allomorph of the suffix
~Ya ~ -ray in Sitajara (see 7-2.21.3). It might be
better to analyze all occurrences of /-ray/ in Sitajara,
both those on jani and others, as an independent suffix
resulting from the convergence of -ra ‘yet' and -raki
aggregate and overlapping the domains of both in other
dialects: on jani it means 'yet', and elsewhere it
has the meanings of -raki. Examples of -raki and its
allomorphs on different roots, stems, and themes are

given below.
7-2.21.41 On interrogatives

Kuna.rak aka.sti? (Huancané)

‘And what is this?! _
Kuna.ra: aka.sti? (Salinas)