590

7 Questions with kuna.taki.s were originally thought
to require an answer with -fa.taki, rather than -iri,
but -iri is usually preferred in my data. See 7-4.21.23
for -fha.taki subordination.

 

8the verb ma(n)g'a.fia may mean 'to eat' or ‘to
feed' depending on context and verbal derivational suf-
fixes occurring in the stem.

"The two paradigms with and without -na on the
(optional) pronoun occur for all grammatical persons
in La Paz/Compi.

MOcubjects of verbs subordinated with -ipana,
etc., lose their final vowels except in Morocomarca.

Veiga linker and -sa interrogative/indefinite
are treated as two suffixes by Hardman et al. (1975).
They are here treated as one because it is not always
possible to separate the functions.

les panish syntactic linkers and emphatics enter
Aymara freely, like other loanwords. The greatest number
occurs in the speech of persons (especially men) who are
bilingual in Aymara and Spanish, but some also occur
in the speech of monolinguals.

Ve or sounds made by inanimate objects the verb
ta- is used instead of sa.fia, according to the following

example from Yapita (La Paz/Compi):

Punk"u.x tulx t.i.w.
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'The door slammed.' ('The door went "thud".')

According to Yapita there is no general term for ‘sound'
in Aymara; a number of onomatopoeic words are used (see
Appendix B).

Min present-day Aymara -kucha occurs only on
jani. Evidence from Bertonio (1603b:277) suggests it
may have been an independent nonfinal suffix in his time,
as he showed it in a verb stem between the root and the
inflection, but it may instead have been a noun root,
verbalized and then inflected.