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Example 29-9
Hy loop (in) die bos in.
Hy
he
loop
walks
(in)
(in)
die
the
bos
forest
in.
in
He walks into the forest.
Comment:
In spoken Afrikaans, a structure which standardly only requires a postposition may feature an additional (semantically vacuous) preposition.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Postpositions
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Circumpositions
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