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um irp.xata.fia ‘to direct water through a canal (if it
water — is going the wrong way)' (La Paz/Compi)

jum awtu.ru.w irp.xata.fa ‘to put you in a car (if

ap car OO you're sick and can't move)
and take you somewhere’
(La Paz/Compi)

(An animal may be substituted for the person in the last
example.)

In classifying noun features it is necessary to
recognize metaphoric usages whereby an apparently nonhuman
noun is used where a human noun would be expected. The
derived verb irpa.ra.fia ‘to take away, remove physically,
as punishment', with the Class 1 verbal derivational suffix
-ra-, may take a human subject and a human or animal zero
complement. For example, a customs agent (human subject)
may take away someone's dog (animal zero complement). Meta-
phorically human, the law may take children (human zero
complement) from one parent and give them to the other
parent. (These examples are all from La Paz/Tiahuanaco. )

The verbs achu.fia (La Paz) and puqu.fia (La Paz and

elsewhere) take a plant subject and no zero complement.

ach.u.
a "Potatoes grow/are produced. '
pug.u. ( (La Paz) (Calacala)
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