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Example 59-148
mama ti mbi aga fade ge
mama
mother
ti
of
mbi
1sg
a-ga
pm
-come
fade
just.now
ge
here
My mother just came here.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: No overt past marker exists
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