Example 28-176

ɛkɛ suku mu titi ori jɛnda ka
ɛkɛ
1sg
suku
want
mu
go
titi
time
ori
3sg
jɛn-da
be-there
ka
neg
I don't want to go when he is not there. OR: I want to go when he is not there; I don't want to go when he is there.
Comment:
The utterance cited here was produced in a context where negation clearly had scope over both the main proposition and the embedded proposition. Elicited judgements and spontaneous production both confirm that the utterance also has the other translations provided here, where negation has scope only over the embedded proposition, or over the main one.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 2000: 896