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Example 57-68
le malad tet pu lja
le
si
malad
sick
tet
head
pu
for
lja
3sg
He/She has a headache.
Comment:
The subject can be fronted in a focusing construction:
tet pu lja le malad
‘It's his head that hurts (not his foot).'
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
own knowledge Ehrhart
Language:
Tayo
by
Sabine Ehrhart
and
Melanie Revis
cite
Datapoints:
Experiencer constructions with ‘headache’: Body-part is subject
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