Example 59-116

melenge ti wali so akumase ti toto
melenge
child
ti
of
wali
female
so
dem
a-kumase
pm-begin
ti
of
toto
cry
The girl began to cry.
French: Cette fille commença à pleurer.
Comment:
I would have expected DET; there is no other girl in this story. Kumase is borrowed from French commencer.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994