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Example 59-154
lege ake kanga na peko ti ala biani biani
lege
path
a-ke
pm
-
cop
kanga
close
na
prep
peko
back
ti
of
ala
3pl
biani
truly
biani
truly
The path kept being completely covered up behind them.
Comment:
In the past, as narrated, the path the husband and wife took was covered up with vegetation as they continued on their way so that people would not know where they were going.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Tense-aspect systems: No or only one tense or aspect marker
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