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Example 69-66
man payum aka aykum tari-kən mambi ya-nan
man
other
payum
man
aka
neg
aykum
woman
tari-kən
hold-
nmlz
mambi
then
ya-nan
come-
nonfut
Then another man who didn’t have a wife came.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own field notes 1985
Language:
Yimas-Arafundi Pidgin
by
William A. Foley
cite
Datapoints:
Subject relative clauses: Zero and gap
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