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Example 40-105
Həd nɔ kadz ters kadi tə hika.
Həd
loc
nɔ
our
kadz
house
ters
rosary
kadi
daily
tə
prs
hika.
be/become
We have the rosary everyday in our house.
Comment:
The present-tense copula verb
tə hika
is the morphologically regular form. The syncretic equivalent is
tɛ.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Clements 1996
: 162
Language:
Korlai
by
J. Clancy Clements
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative locative phrases: Invariant copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Identity
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