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phrases, and may be complements of verbs. They may fill

the paradigm slot for 3+3 Simple tense without verbaliza-

tion, as in

Uma.nt.iri.w. 'They usually drink.' (Sitajara)
— ‘They are drinkers.'

Other examples:

muru.s.iri  ‘'‘hair-cutting godfather’ (Socca)

muru.fia ‘to cut hair'

lik'i.ch.iri 'fat-maker' (Salinas) (cf. k"ari.s.iri)

lik'i.cha.fia 'to make fat'

ach.ja.s.ir anu.x ‘biting dog, dog that bites'
bite ~~ dog (La Paz/Tiahuanaco)

7-4.21.12 -iri purposive

In this syntactic function a verb nominalized
with -iri does not usually take any noun suffixes except
the borderline noun/independent suffix -jama. As pur-
posive -iri occurs on a verb subordinated syntactically
to another verb. It translates as ‘in order to, for the

purpose of' and answers questions like the following:

Kuna.ru.s
jut.ta 7! ‘Why did you come?'
Kuna. taki.s -

why