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Example 41-114
braanku kiontaa, aka mee dreetu palaavra
braanku
whitewash
ki-ontaa,
nmlz
-paint
aka
that
mee
foc
dreetu
right
palaavra
word
Whitewash is “ontaa”ed. THAT’s the correct word.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 1629
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative noun phrases: No copula
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