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Example 59-153
[...], mo teen', baa, mo nyon' samba ape o
[...],
[...]
mo
2sg
tene,
say
baa,
see
mo
2sg
nyon'
drink
samba
beer
ape
neg
o
def
(When he offers you beer), say, "Look, I don't drink beer, thank you."
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Uses of the habitual marker: Only habitual function
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
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