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Example 48-34
I ta miná
hende
aí memo.
I
I
ta
prog
miná
see
hende
people
aí
there
memo.
right
I see someone right there.
Spanish:
(Yo) miro a la gente allí mismo.
Comment:
Note:
hende
is derived from Spanish (perhaps also via relexification from Portuguese
gente
'people', which in some varieties of Portuguese also means 'we').
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Recorded by author
Language:
Palenquero
by
Armin Schwegler
cite
Datapoints:
Indefinite pronouns: Generic-noun-based indefinites
Uses of the progressive marker: Only progressive function
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