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'I will take you by car.'

The verb apa.fia plus the Class 1 verbal derivational
suffix -rpaya- implies a human subject and complement:
apa.rpaya.fia 'to leave someone’. However, when the Class 1
suffixes -su- and -ta- are added to the root apa-, the new
stem takes the moving natural phenomenon qinaya ‘cloud’ as
subject; it will not take a human subject nor the suffix
-fla.

Qinaya.x ap.s.t.i.w. ‘Clouds gathered. ' (La Paz)
3>3
S

Another carrying verb, irpa.fia 'to take a person’,
requires both a human subject and a human zero complement
in La Paz.

(Naya.x) (jum) irpa.:ma. ‘I will take you.'
1s2
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In Salinas irpa.fia may also take a domesticated animal as
zero complement. In La Paz the derived verb irp.xata.fa,
with the Class 1 verbal derivational suffix -xata-, still
requires a human subject but may take a human or nonhuman

zero complement. Examples: