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Example 59-194
lo ga amu lege, lo kiri fadeso
lo
3sg
ga
come
a-mu
pm
-take
lege,
path
lo
3sg
kiri
return
fadeso
now
She then took off and returned.
Comment:
In this kind of construction, very common in narratives, the second verb takes either PM, the pronoun or nothing.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Expression of pronominal subjects: Optional pronoun words
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