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Example 59-211
laso mbi na mo, i ke gwe biani
laso
today
mbi
1sg
na
prep
mo,
2sg
i
1pl
yeke
cop
gwe
go
biani
truly
Today we're going for sure.
Comment:
Na
might be the connective 'and'.
Laso
is made up of
la
'sun' +
so
'thus'. This is based on an early document that reveals the meaning of
so
as thus: 'When the sun is in the sky where I am pointing [...]'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Noun phrase conjunction and comitative: Identity
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