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Example 30-163
Si álma debe sta na séu!
Si=álma
3sg
.
poss
=soul
debe
must
sta
be
na=séu!
in=heaven
His soul must be in heaven!
German:
Seine Seele muss im Himmel sein!
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Brüser et al. 2002
: s.v. álma
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative locative phrases: Invariant copula
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