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Example 3-89
Hén dá malénge-ma.
Hén
3sg
dá
be
malénge-ma.
lazy-MA
He is a lazy-bones.
Comment:
Ma
is an agentive suffix.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Veenstra 1996
: 36
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative noun phrases: Invariant copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Overlap
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