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Example 38-147
I té wan lapizi.
Eli
3sg
té
have
wan
art
lapizi.
pencil
He has a pencil.
Comment:
This was uttered by a young man.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Own fieldwork 1990
Language:
Fa d’Ambô
by
Marike Post
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative possession: Transitive
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Overlap
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