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translating para 'for'), the sentence is reworked by Yapita

as follows:

Liatunk minutu.mpi.x las nuywi.:.ni.w. (La Paz/Compi)
nine minute with nine 3>3
F

‘In (with) nine minutes it will be nine o'clock.'

9-6 Semantics

9-6.] Linguistic postulates

9-6.11 Four-person system

Since the 16th century the first and fourth grammati-
cal persons have often been confused by nonnative speakers
of Aymara. Anomalies such as Na.naka.n Awki.sa stil]
occur today as the first words of the Lord's Prayer, ‘Our
Father'. Na.naka.n is the exclusive 1p possessive, ‘our
but not your', while Awki.sa has the inclusive 4p posses-
Sive on the noun awki 'father', meaning ‘father of you and

me The whole phrase Na.naka.n Awki.sa is therefore a
semantic impossibility, ‘our-but-not-your father-of-you-
and-me'. However, merely correcting the phrase to Na.naka.n
Awki.xa, with the 1p possessive suffix -xa on awki, does

not improve matters, inasmuch as the hearer would then

feel excluded: ‘our father but not yours.' Using the 4p
for both, Jiwasa.n Awki.sa avoids exclusivity but might

be objected to on the ground that 'Our Father' in the con-

text of the Lord's Prayer is addressed to God and that