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Example 29-163
My ma het van Kaapstad (af) terug gekom.
My
1sg
.
poss
ma
mother
het
pst
van
from
Kaapstad
Cape.Town
(af)
(off)
terug
back
ge-kom.
ptcp
-come
My mother has returned from Cape Town.
Comment:
This is very common indeed in spoken Afrikaans.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
Coming from named places: Circumposition
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