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Example 59-1
melenge ti lo oko amu koli, kol ni ate zo
melenge
child
ti
of
lo
3sg
oko
one
a-mu
pm
-take
koli,
man
koli
man
ni
det
a-te
pm
-eat
zo
person
His one child married a man; the man ate people.
Comment:
Notice that although it was the man's practice to live on human flesh, habitual aspect is not expressed here with COP.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
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