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7-4.42 sa.ita with Imperative tense

The 2>3 Imperative on sa.fla, sa.m(a) ‘tell
him/her/them', is considered rude when said alone but

it may occur to embed another Imperative verb. Examples:

<Chur.itm> sa.ma. ‘Tell him "Give me".'
give 2i ~ ('Tell him to give you . . .') (Huancané)
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A more complex embedding of sa.fia with the Imperative is

the following:

Tiyu duwana.x ak"am s.i.w <<dut.pan> sa.m > s.i.w.
uncle Juan thus 3 come 3+3 2>3 3>3
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‘Uncle Juan thus said, "'Let him/her come', say," he said.'
(‘Uncle Juan wants you to come.') (La Paz/Compi)

This last example is a reduced form of a longer sentence

with four embeddings of sa.fa.

Tiyu Juwana.x ak"am s.i.w
333
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KK jut.pan > siti > sa.m S.i.wa.
S 3>3 3 =. 7 1 33

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