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Example 1-26
Bikasi allasanni, dissi buku takki va mi, sa komm so.
Bikasi
because
ala-sani,
all-thing
disi
rel
buku
book
taki
say
fu
of
mi,
1sg
sa
fut
kom
come
so.
so
Because everything that the Book says about me will happen like that.
Comment:
The relative clause, marked by
disi
and with an empty object position, immediately follows the subject antecedent.
Type:
written
Source:
Schumann 1781
: 253
Language:
Early Sranan
by
Margot C. van den Berg
and
Adrienne Bruyn
cite
Datapoints:
Order of relative clause and noun: Relative clause follows noun
Object relative clauses: Relative pronoun
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