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Example 38-152
[...] se wan navĩn-balea tamba Palea, [...].
[...]
[...]
se
and
wan
one
navin-balea
ship-whale
tan-ba
iter
-go
Palea,
Pale
[...].
[...]
[...] and another whale ship came to Pale, [...].
Comment:
The iterative is used in this case to indicate that once again a ship came.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own fieldwork 1993
Language:
Fa d’Ambô
by
Marike Post
cite
Datapoints:
Going to named places: No adpositional/case marking
Motion-to and motion-from: Differentiation
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