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as modifiers in noun phrases, which allow recursive
embeddings of up to five nouns or nominalized forms,
the head of the phrase constituting a sixth. Nouns

within a noun phrase must be ordered. Example:

k"a: jach'a wila  punku.n tinta taypi.n
that big red door store middle

 

 

 

 

‘in the middle of that store with the big red door'

Such extensive noun embedding occurs rather infrequently.
The longest noun phrase to occur in a free text in this

research is the following from La Paz/Compi:

uka Jlatinu.t anu.mp parl.ir tata.x

that Latin dog | talk man

   
 

   

‘that man who talked in Latin with a doq'