The defective verb " t?" is used to equate two noun phrases and is used only with the emphasized completive " ka / ga ", as in " Ay ma ka ti Yakuba " ( " My name is Yakuba " ).
12.
The aspectual system of Ch'orti'language changed to a tripartite pronominal system which comes with different morphemes used for the subject of transitive verbs, the object of transitive verbs and the subject of intransitive completive verbs, and a third set of pronouns only used for the subject of incompletive intransitive verbs.
13.
There are also two rising tones ( / 21 / and / 32 / ) and three falling tones ( / 12 /, / 23 /, / 34 / ) as well as a more limited falling tone / 24 /, found in a few lexical items and in a few Completive forms of verbs.
14.
In the interrogative mood, the simple forms of the continuative aspect are identical to their forms in the indicative, and the question indicator "'E [ Y ] "'is added to the beginning, but the simple forms of the completive and potential have another form, as in the following examples.
