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Example 59-62
mbi lingbi titene, mbi diko ahunzi pepe
mbi
1sg
lingbi
able
titene,
so.that
mbi
1sg
diko
count
ahunzi
sm
.be.finished
pepe
neg
I can't say that I have listed everything completely.
Comment:
This is from a radio broadcast in 1961 or 1962. It may therefore be the translation of a text in French either written in Sango or given extemporaneously.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Special dependent person forms for subject and object: No dependent person forms
Complements of 'think' and 'want': Identical complementizer
Position of standard negation: After verb plus postverbal object
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