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Example 41-61
poɖiyaas sudu akantu mee yanasa,
aka
kaazantu
poɖiyaas
children
sudu
all
aka-ntu
that-
loc
mee
foc
jaa-nasa,
pst
-be.born
aka
that
kaaza-ntu
house-
loc
The children were all born there, in that house.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 5105
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Postpositions
Pronominal and adnominal demonstratives: Same stems, different inflectional features
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Affix
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