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Example 73-97
no tinini kuchilluda
inkiun
kurtasha panda
no
neg
tini-ni
have-
1sg
kuchillu-da
knife-
acc
inki-un
what-
ins
kurta-sha
cut-
1sg
.
fut
pan-da
bread-
acc
I do not have a knife with which to cut the bread.
Comment:
I am fairly confident in the use of the wh-strategy in Media Lengua in instrument relatives, but the example looks too much like a literal translation from Spanish.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Muysken 1997
: 393
Language:
Media Lengua
by
Pieter Muysken
cite
Datapoints:
Instrument relative clauses: Relative pronoun with pied-piping
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