Example 59-84

akete amelenge ti awali
a-kete
pl-small
a-melenge
pl-child
ti
of
a-wali
pl-female
young girls
Comment:
I have seen such utterances in my recordings of children in Bangui. One should, I think, consider it ungrammatical because of the plural with the word wali, which is functioning as a gender constraint and does not mean 'women'. This illustrates, however, the tendency to spread the plural.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994