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Example 19-145
Bɔtul vino
de
nà kichin.
Bɔtul
bottle
vino
wine
de
cop
nà
loc
kichin.
kitchen
A bottle of wine is in the kitchen.
Comment:
De
is the locative-existential copula.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Field data
Language:
Pichi
by
Kofi Yakpo
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative locative phrases: Invariant copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Differentiation
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