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Example 59-162
kol ni amu mama ni afaa lo
koli
man
ni
det
a-mu
pm
-take
mama
mother
ni
det
a-faa
pm
-kill
lo
3sg
The man (husband) took the (wife's) mother and killed her.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs: Stative verbs with present reference and dynamic verbs with past perfective reference are both unmarked
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