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Example 30-159
[...] tudu kel ténpu si almusu
éra
mandióka kru [...].
[...]
[...]
tudu
all
kel=ténpu
dem
.
sg
=time
si=almusu
3sg
.
poss
=lunch
éra
be.
ant
mandióka
manioc
kru
raw
[...].
[...]
[...] the whole time his lunch consisted of raw manioc [...].
German:
[...] diese ganze Zeit über bestand sein Mittagessen aus rohem Maniok [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
da Silva 1987
: 35
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative noun phrases: Invariant copula
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