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In these sentences the interrogatives with -ti.xa are not
followed by uka resumator. In non-Missionary Aymara -ti.xa
occurs infrequently, as a subordinator of verbs and demons-
stratives. It may also occur on interrogatives, but when
it does it is usually ordered first in a sentence and
followed later by uka resumator, as in the examples given
in 7-4.24.

An example of code-switching in which Spanish all
but submerges the Aymara is the following sentence, again

from the Baptist sermon referred to earlier:

Yo creo que jani.w hermana.naka.s.
I think that no ~ sister ~~

 

'T think not, sisters.'

The only Aymara in the above sentence is the negative
particle jani with the absolute final suffix -wa (reduced
to w) and the Aymara plural suffix -naka, which is followed
by the Spanish plural -s. The meaning conveyed is some-
what stronger than the above translation would imply, due
to the presence of -wa; a closer approximation would be
"No, sisters, I know it's not so.’

Although successive embedding in noun phrases is
possible in Aymara (see 7-4.2), it is not very common.
It occurs with more than usual frequency in a story told

by a Protestant minister from La Paz (Wexler 1967:454-456).