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Example 28-175
aʃu pamen kɛnau, dɛn ju kan krik di boka
aʃi
if
ju
2sg
pama
tell
en
one
kɛnɛ
person
nau,
now
dɛn
then
ju
2sg
kan
can
kriki
get
di
the
boki
money
ka
neg
If you tell anybody, then you can't get the money.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 1994
: 239
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Position of standard negation: After verb plus postverbal object
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