578

T'ant'a.x jani.t ut.j.k.i ? ‘Isn't there any bread?’
bread ~ 333 (La Paz/Compi)
S

A negative answer to a -sa/(-xa) information
question without any verbal inflection retains the
interrogative as an indefinite, verbalized and suffixed
with -sa, and adds jani plus -wa, resulting in a -sa/-wa

sentence:

Kuna.s uka.xa ? (Uka.x) jani.w kuna.:.k.i.sa.
what that 343
S

 

'What is that? (That) isn't anything.' (La Paz/Compi)

A negative answer to a -sa/(-xa) information question
containing an inflected verb consists of jani plus -wa;
the interrogative with -sa; and if the verb is repeated,

it takes -ti.

Kuna.s ut.j.i ? Jani.w kuna.s (ut.j.k.i.ti).
what 3+3 “353

S S

 

 

‘What is there? There isn't anything.' (La Paz/Compi)

Kun.s  mun.ta ? Jani.w kun.s mun.k.t.ti.
what want 2>3 “|+37
S S

 

 

 

 

'What do you want? I don't want anything.' (La Paz/Compi)