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Example 41-80
senaa, noospa janasa poɖiyaaspa nosa lingvaay seensaba kiteem
senaa,
otherwise
[noos-pa
[
1pl
-
acc
jaa-nasa]
pst
-be.born]
poɖiyaas-pa
child.
pl
-
dat
nosa
1pl
.
gen
lingvaay
language
seem-saba
neg
.
ptcp
-know
ki-teem
hab
-be
Otherwise, the children born to us don't know our language.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 5125
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Uses of the habitual marker: Only habitual function
Subject relative clauses: Zero and gap
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