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Example 57-1
ma vwa kas sa le ŋgra
ma
1sg
vwa
see
kas
house
sa
rel
le
si
ŋgra
big
I see the big house.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Ehrhart fieldwork 1990
Language:
Tayo
by
Sabine Ehrhart
and
Melanie Revis
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Order of adjective and noun: Modifying adjective follows noun
Gender agreement of adnominal adjectives: No adjective agrees with the noun
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