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Example 59-324
ala hinga ape, atene, mbeni yi laa asara lo a lege
ala
2pl
hinga
know
ape,
neg
a-tene,
pm
-say
mbeni
some
yi
thing
laa
top
a-sara
pm
-do
lo
3sg
na
prep
lege
way
You didn't know (that she had been killed), thinking that something had happened to her on the way (home).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Position of standard negation: After verb plus postverbal object
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