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Example 59-149
ala gwe zuska na yanga ti da
ala
3pl
gwe
go
zuska
all.the.way
na
prep
yanga
mouth
ti
of
da
house
They went all the way home.
Comment:
Zuska
, borrowed from French
jusqu'a
, is being used either as it is in French for 'until' or as an Africanized ideophone meaning 'for a long time.' In other words, 'they went on and on'.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
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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