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Example 59-199
akete kete amicrobe ti bilharzie ni ake na ya ti ngu so
a-kete
pl
-small
kete
small
a-<microbe>
pl
-microbe
ti
of
<bilharzie>
bilharzia
ni
def
a-yeke
pm
-
cop
na
in
ya
interior
ti
of
ngu
water
so
dem
Very small liver-fluke microbes are in this river.
Comment:
Because of the DEF this sentence might mean 'The very small microbes are in this river'.
Microbe
and
bilharzia
(schistosomiasis) are French.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin 1967
: 156
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
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