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Example 35-235
Sun Sabino ê, kuma ku a ka sama kwa se ni santome?
Sun
Mr.
Sabino
Sabino
ê,
voc
kuma
how
ku
"ku"
a
imprs
ka
ipfv
sama
call
kwa
thing
se
dem
ni
in
santome?
Santome
Mr. Sabino, how do you call that in Santome?
Comment:
IMPRS = impersonal pronoun.
Ku
, which we see in this example, occurs typically with fronted
wh
-constituents (here:
kuma
'how').
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own data
Language:
Santome
by
Tjerk Hagemeijer
cite
Datapoints:
Vocative markers: Optional vocative marker following noun
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