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Example 30-47
E pensa ma
algun kusa
ki kontise.
E=pensa
3sg
=think
ma=algun
comp
=some
kusa
thing
ki=kontise.
comp
=happen
He thought that something had happened!
German:
Er dachte, dass etwas passiert sei!
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Brüser et al. 2002
: s.v. algun
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
Indefinite pronouns: Generic-noun-based indefinites
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