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Example 32-123
Grinhasin el
ta
na moráda.
Grinhasin
now
el
3sg
ta
loc
.
prs
na
in
moráda.
town
She is in the town now.
Portuguese:
Ela está na cidade agora.
Comment:
Here,
ta
is a locative copula.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Swolkien de Sousa 2012
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente
by
Dominika Swolkien
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Differentiation
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