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Example 2-141
En nanga trawan kon dya nanga wan bigi sipi.
En
3sg
nanga
with
trawan
other.one
kon
come
dya
here
nanga
with
wan
det
bigi
big
sipi.
ship
He and others came here on a big ship.
Comment:
The oblique form of the 3rd person singular pronoun is used as the subject in equational sentences, in coordinate NPs, and when followed by intensifier
srefi
‘self’.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Nickel and Wilner 1984
: 38
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Alignment of case marking of personal pronouns: Accusative alignment
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