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Example 52-104
to
pa
té lé krè wonm
to
you
pa
neg
té
pst
lé
want
krè
believe
wonm
man
You did not want to believe (me), man!
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Jennings and Pfänder 2013+
Language:
Guyanais
by
Stefan Pfänder
cite
Datapoints:
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
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