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Example 59-276
wali
so
aduti na sese ka so, lo ke mama ti mbi
wali
woman
so
dem
a-duti
pm
-sit
na
prep
sese
ground
ka
over.there
so,
thus
lo
3sg
ke
cop
mama
mother
ti
of
mbi
1sg
The woman who's sitting on the ground over there is my mother.
Comment:
Here the pronoun
lo
is resumptive, and I would expect juncture before it, indicated here with the comma. Ordinarily one would use the PM with the COP.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Subject relative clauses: Relative particle and resumptive pronoun
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