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taqi iw.x.iri.nak pug.pach ch"uxa.ni.wa.sin
all advise full urinate ~~

t'ug.s.ta.ni.w.x. iritayn.
escape 333
RIK

‘All at once giving a jump, standing up at the door
of the married couple, urinating all over them,
the godparents, and the advisors (other wedding
guests), he escaped.'

This heavily subordinated sentence closes the story of
a skunk-turned-man who attends and ultimately disrupts
a wedding.

As for function and semantics, ~sina is some-
times used when the subjects of the main and subordinate
verb are different, in parts of La Paz (for example
Achocalla) where the use of -ipana (7-4.22.2) is rare.
Dialects having -ipana use -ipana when the subjects are
different, and use -sa and -sina (or variants of the
latter) when the subjects are the same.

Some writers have claimed that -sa indicates
an action simultaneous with the action of the main verb,
while -sina indicates an action occurring before the
action of the main verb. This claim is not supported
by evidence obtained in this study. Numerous examples
obtained in free texts undermine any argument for a simul-
taneous/nonsimultaneous distinction (or any other con-
sistent distinction) between -sa and -sina,as will be

seen below.