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Example 29-107
Ons het nie vir Piet gesien nie.
Ons
1sg
het
pst
nie
neg
vir
for
Piet
Pete
ge-sien
ptcp
-seen
nie.
neg
We didn't see Pete. / We hadn't seen Pete.
Comment:
The
vir
('for') marker is optional here, but is particularly common in spoken Afrikaans. When
vir
is absent, the word order changes:
Ons het Piet nie gesien nie
, not
*Ons het nie Piet gesien nie
(cf. Molnárfi 1999).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of patient noun phrases: Only definite and animate patient NPs are marked
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