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Example 38-16
May laba mina sunzu.
Mai
mother
laba
wash
mina
child
sunzu.
dirty
The mother washes the dirty child.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Own fieldwork 1990
Language:
Fa d’Ambô
by
Marike Post
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Position of definite article in the noun phrase: Definite article is preposed
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