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Example 57-46
no,
napa
kuvri kom sa meso-la
no,
no
napa
neg
kuvri
cover
kom
like
sa
that
meso-la
house-
dem
/
def
No, [we] don't cover the houses like this. OR: It is not like this that we cover the houses.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Ehrhart 1993
: 190
Language:
Tayo
by
Sabine Ehrhart
and
Melanie Revis
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
Marking of patient noun phrases: No marking of patient NPs
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
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