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Example 59-17
lo gwe lo si na yanga (ti) da ka
lo
3sg
gwe
go
lo
3sg
si
arrive
na
prep
yanga
mouth
(ti)
(of)
da
house
ka
there
She went and arrived at the house there. OR: She went to the house there. OR: She arrived at the house over there.
Comment:
Although this is an example of a serial construction, the verb
gwe
might in this sentence be a feature of discourse meaning something like 'and then'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Gender distinctions in personal pronouns: No gender distinctions
Going to named places: Serial verb plus preposition
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