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Example 29-188
die mes
wat
hy die brood mee gesny het
die
def
.
art
mes
knife
wat
rel
hy
3sg
.
m
die
the
brood
bread
__
__
mee
with
gesny
cut
het
pst
the knife he cut the bread with
Comment:
Colloquial Afrikaans thus permits adposition stranding. Strikingly, though, the stranded adposition always take the form found in R-pronoun structures (
met die mes/wat vs. waarmee
- 'with the knife/which vs. where-with').
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
Instrument relative clauses: Relative particle and gap with preposition stranding
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