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Example 30-120
Si
nhu ka kre
nxina-m ramédi,
ka nhu nxina
[...].
Si=nhu=ka=kre
if=
2sg
.
m
.
pol
=
neg
=want
nxina=m
show=
1sg
ramédi,
remedy
ka
neg
nhu=nxina
2sg
.
m
.
pol
=show
[...].
[...]
If you don’t want to show me a remedy, well, simply don’t show me [...].
German:
Wenn Sie mir kein Heilmittel zeigen wollen, dann zeigen Sie mir eben keines [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
da Silva 1987
: 33
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Special imperative construction and normal negator
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