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Example 59-86
lo sara agozo, lo sara ayi ti gongo na ni
lo
3sg
sara
make
a-gozo,
pl
-manioc
lo
3sg
sara
make
a-yi
pl
-thing
ti
of
gwengo
going
na
prep
ni
det
She prepared manioc and things, she prepared things to take.
Comment:
In addition to illustrating the use of PL with inanimate objects, this example illustrates its use as associative plural, which has here the meaning of 'et cetera'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
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