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Example 28-177
ɛk wa noiti nika, solok bɛr kɛk di sa hapn
ɛkɛ
1sg
wa
pst
noiti
never
nimi
know
ka,
neg
soloko
such
bɛrɛ
story
kɛkɛ
like
di
this
sa
irr
hapn
happen
I never knew such things could happen.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 1994
: 88
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Position of standard negation: After verb plus postverbal object
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