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Example 1-168
Kaba a kommoppo na bergi
nanga
dem.
Kaba
and
a
3sg
.
sbj
komopo
come.from
na
loc
bergi
mountain
nanga
with
den.
3pl
And he came down from the mountain with them.
Comment:
The preposition
nanga
here expresses comitative, ‘(together) with'.
Type:
written
Source:
Schumann 1781
: 57
Language:
Early Sranan
by
Margot C. van den Berg
and
Adrienne Bruyn
cite
Datapoints:
Comitatives and instrumentals: Identity
Noun phrase conjunction and comitative: Overlap
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