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Example 2-142
Kande en srefi e kon na foto bori na agu gi mi.
Kande
perhaps
en
3sg
srefi
self
e
ipfv
kon
come
na
loc
foto
city
bori
cook
na
det
agu
pig
gi
for
mi.
me
Perhaps he himself comes to the city to cook the pig for me.
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
: 47
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Alignment of case marking of personal pronouns: Accusative alignment
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