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Example 64-16
nas al gegéni fi juba úmon tabanín
nas
people
al
rel
ge=géni
prog
=stay
fi
in
juba
Juba
úmon
3pl
taban-ín
poor-
pl
People who live in Juba are poor.
Comment:
Here
ge
has a current state meaning.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Manfredi 2005
: 105
Language:
Juba Arabic
by
Stefano Manfredi
and
Sara Petrollino
cite
Datapoints:
Order of relative clause and noun: Relative clause follows noun
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs: Stative verbs with present reference and dynamic verbs with past perfective reference are both unmarked
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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