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Example 37-49
Ine ningê
ixila
, ine rupê.
Ine
pl
ningê
people
ixila,
dist
ine
3pl
rupê.
white
Those people [over there], they are whites.
Comment:
The distal adnominal demonstrative has two forms,
xila
or
ixila
, which are free variants. As a pronoun, only the form
ixila
is used.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Maurer 2009
: 35
Language:
Principense
by
Philippe Maurer
cite
Datapoints:
Distance contrasts in demonstratives: Two-way contrast
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