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Example 57-100
fo
pa
met vaʃ pi toro nda ʃam
fo
oblig
pa
neg
met
put
vaʃ
cow
pi
and
toro
bull
nda
in
ʃam
field
You should not put cows and bulls in one field.
Comment:
Fo pa
is an example of a strongly fossilized expression that occurred in French with high frequency. Here the negation is not really segmentable.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Ehrhart fieldwork 1990
Language:
Tayo
by
Sabine Ehrhart
and
Melanie Revis
cite
Datapoints:
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
Female and male animals: Other
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