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Example 29-147
Jan het met Marie gaan kyk.
Jan
John
het
pst
met
with
Marie
Mary
gaan
go
kyk.
look.
inf
John went with Mary to have a look.
Comment:
In the case of comitatives,
saam
('together') is very frequently used together with
met
('with'), and in Cape Afrikaans
met [...] saam
has become a collocation (cf. also Ponelis 1993: 348).
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
Noun phrase conjunction and comitative: Differentiation
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