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Example 34-110
N bay Sicor
ku
ña yermoŋ. — N kortá karna
ku
faka.
N
1sg
.
sbj
ø
pfv
bay
go
Sicor
Ziguinchor
ku
with
ña
poss
.
1sg
yermoŋ.
sibling
—
N
1sg
.
sbj
ø
pfv
kortá
cut
karna
meat
ku
with
faka.
knife
I went to Ziguinchor with my brother/sister. — I cut the meat with a knife.
Comment:
The first sentence illustrates a comitative; the second an instrumental construction.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Casamancese Creole
by
Noël Bernard Biagui
and
Nicolas Quint
cite
Datapoints:
Comitatives and instrumentals: Overlap
Noun phrase conjunction and comitative: Overlap
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