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The above type of embedding is very common, but when the
addressee is also the subject of the embedded quote a
different structure may be used, according to Yapita
(La Paz/Compi). In this structure the 2p pronoun re-
places the 3p subject of the quote, but remains outside

the quote.

Naya.x juma.w <naya.r t'ant' chur.itani> sa.sa.w
Tp 2p Ip bread give 351
F

s.ista Ana Mariya.ru.

 

1l-

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'I (speaking of) you "She will give me bread" saying said
to Ana Marfa.' "I told Ana Maria that you would give
me bread. ')

The example above is evidence of what Hardman calls
overmarking of the second person in Aymara, a phenomenon
tied to the operation of the four-person system (see
8-2.1).

Examples of sa.fia embedding in longer sentences
are the following, with -sa or -sina subordination and
with the use of sa.iia as obligatory. The first example
comes from a comment on why fiestas often degenerate
into fights, from a source in Juli. The second is from
a description of the end of the fiesta of San Juan in

Sitajara.