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Example 2-180
Yu e go na a mma
dan
yu o taki.
Yu
2sg
e
ipfv
go
go
na
loc
a
det
mma
mother
dan
then
yu
2sg
o
fut
taki.
talk
You’d go to the mother and you’d speak.
Comment:
Some speakers use
èn
to conjoin clauses, e.g.
A pikin èn a grun.
[3SG small and 3SG green] ‘It’s small and it’s green.’ (Nickel & Wilner 1984: 25)
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Winford and Migge 2008
: 708
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Nominal and verbal conjunction: Differentiation
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