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Example 28-7
da mɛt oriso wa jɛnda, afto pakatɛ fan di haspital
da
cop
mɛtɛ
with
ori
3sg
so
foc
o
3sg
wa
pst
jɛn-da,
loc
.
cop
-there
afta
after
o
3sg
paka-tɛ
exit-
pfv
fan
from
di
def
haspital
hospital
It is with her that she was staying, after she came out of the hospital.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 1994
: 195
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Focusing of the noun phrase: Cleft with copula before focus
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