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Example 2-43
Na
en
teki a buku.
Na
foc
en
3sg
teki
take
a
det
buku.
book
It’s HER/HIM that took the book.
Comment:
The oblique form of the 3rd person singular pronoun functions as the subject of the equative copula, and also functions as an emphatic form in cleft constructions.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Winford transcripts
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Gender distinctions in personal pronouns: No gender distinctions
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