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Example 58-1
Yandi baka mbongo sumb-il-a mono mukanda.
Yandi
he
baka
take.
narr
mbongo
money
sumb-il-a
buy-
appl
-
narr
mono
me
mukanda.
book
He took money and bought me a/the book. OR: He bought me the/a book with (the) money.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Kikongo-Kituba
by
Salikoko S. Mufwene
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
‘Take’ serial verb constructions: Instrument of the second verb, no resumptive pronoun
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