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Example 41-84
fuula takuza osiir avara
fuula
flower
ta-kuza
prs
-sew
osiir
3sg
.
hon
avara
now
She is doing decorative stitching now.
Comment:
This illustrates the present of the dynamic verb
kuza
'sew'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 5284
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of patient noun phrases: Only animate patient NPs are marked
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