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8-2.42 Conjoined nouns as subject, plural
marked on verb

Tata.j mama.ja.w jark'a.si.p.x.itu.
father Ip mother prevent ~ Sl

S
'My father and mother don't let me.’ (Juli)

+ . g'amagi.mpi k'usillu.mpi jig.xata.si.p.xa.tayna . . .
fox monkey meet ~ 333
RIK
' . . a fox and a monkey met . . . ' (Pacajes; LaBarre
1950:42)

8-2.43 Plural marked only on subject

Alp"irawu.naka.w ut.j.i. "There are alferados.'
alferado ~— 333 (Sitajara)
S

Uka.t uka piwuna.naka.x ya uka chicha.mpi-.x
then that worker

 

tunu.ri.w. 'Then those workers are strengthened
strength with that chicha.' (Sitajara)

Juma.naka ufi.ch'uk.ista.wa. ‘You (pl.) are looking at me.'
- 2>1 (Salinas; translated from
S Spanish)

K"iti.naka.s pur.ta.ni.w.x.i? ‘Who (pi.) arrived?’
who arrive 323 = (Calacoa)
S