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Example 32-145
Ma kulpód é
nos
mesmu
.
Ma
but
kulpód
guilty
é
cop
.
pst
nos
1pl
mesmu.
self
But we ourselves were guilty.
Portuguese:
Mas nós mesmos eramos culpados.
Comment:
Mesmu
is an intensifier.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Swolkien de Sousa 2012
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente
by
Dominika Swolkien
cite
Datapoints:
Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns: Identical and differentiated
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