Example 71-125

George Bell Jr. a me Kawai hele malalo.
George
George
Bell
Bell
Jr.
Jr.
a
and
me
with
Kawai
Kawai
hele
go
malalo.
down
George Bell Jr. and Kawai went down.
Comment:
The space between a me is a spelling convention where a morpheme boundary is shown by a space, but where the two elements correspond to a single English word. So a me is literally "and with", but it is the basic coordinator for noun phrases ("and").
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
own data 1899