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Example 16-95
ʧali ì gò hit sɔm wumans kra
wit
dɛ moto
ʧali
Charley
ì
3sg
gò
fut
hit
hit
sɔm
indf
wuman-s
woman-
pl
kra
foc
wit
with
dɛ
art
moto
car
Boy, he was going to hit some women with the car.
Comment:
Student Pidgin: instrumental
wit
'with'.
Wit
can mark both comitative and instrumental.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own fieldwork
Language:
Ghanaian Pidgin English
by
Magnus Huber
cite
Datapoints:
Comitatives and instrumentals: Overlap
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