Morpheme j(ɨ)-/ɨ-

Functions:

1S (in the main and remote past constructions)

• (apa-154)

  jɨ-nɨk-ase

  1.Sp-sleep-REC

  I slept.

  (Koehn and Koehn 1986: 123)

3>1 (in the main and remote past constructions)

• (apa-75)

  t-oʔ

  COR-meat.POSS

  wo-toĩse

  shoot-FRUST

  ɨ-a

  1-by

  ɨ-meretamu-ru

  1-father.in.law-PERT

  ɨ-nomo-no

  3>1-abandon-IMM

  My father-in-law abandoned me for my almost having shot his meat.

  (Koehn and Koehn 1986: 46)

1P (in the non-past continuative and supine constructions)

• (apa-239)

  mauru

  cotton

  mukarɨ-ʔtao

  pick-when.ADVZ

  j-ene-nko

  1.P-see-CONT

  mana

  3.be.PRS

  He saw me picking the cotton.

  (Camargo 2002: 61)