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Example 60-63
mikolo óyo Francine azalí kosála na restaurant
mikolo
days
óyo
dem
Francine
Francine
a-zal-í
3sg
-be-
prs
.
prf
ko-sál-a
inf
-work-
fv
na
in
restaurant
restaurant
These days Francine works in a restaurant.
Comment:
FV = Final vowel; it has no specific grammatical meaning, but ensures the phonologically canonical consonant-vowel structure on forms such as the infinitive, the subjunctive and the future.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
nd
Language:
Lingala
by
Michael Meeuwis
cite
Datapoints:
Uses of the progressive marker: Progressive and habitual
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