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Example 27-123
Am mangkḗ fo gi am twaləfhondərt patakón [...].
Am
3sg
mangkḗ
want
fo
for
gi
give
am
3sg
twaləf-hondərt
twelve-hundred
patakón
patacons
[...].
[...]
He wants to give him twelve hundred patacons [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Josselin de Jong 1926
: 61
Language:
Negerhollands
by
Robbert van Sluijs
cite
Datapoints:
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs: Stative verbs with present reference and dynamic verbs with past perfective reference are marked differently
‘Want’ complement subjects: The complement subject is left implicit
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