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Example 59-341
ba koli ti mbi so mbi yi ti mu lo so la lo ga awe so
ba
see
koli
man
ti
of
mbi
1sg
so
rel
mbi
1sg
yi
want
ti
to
mu
take
lo
3sg
so
rel
la
top
lo
3sg
ga
come
awe
already
so
thus
See my man I want to marry who has just come.
Comment:
The second REL makes this an example of the bracketing of a relative clause.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
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