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Example 59-284
ba mbeni pendre nyama
so
ni fa
baa
see
mbeni
some
pendre
nice
nyama
animal
so
[
rel
ni
1sg
.
log
fa
kill]
(He said), "Look at a nice animal that I killed."
Comment:
My translation results from taking /mbeni/ seriously. Without it, and preferably with
nyama ni so
the meaning would be 'Look at the nice animal I killed'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Object relative clauses: Relative particle and gap
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