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Example 2-120
A musu de taki
na
den pikin nyan a kuku.
A
it
musu
must
de
be
taki
comp
na
foc
den
the.
pl
pikin
child
nyan
eat
a
det
kuku.
cake
It must be the case that it was the children who ate the cake.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Winford data
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Same TAM marking in negated clauses
Focusing of the noun phrase: Cleft with copula before focus
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