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Language:
Early Sranan
Parameter:
Coming from named places
Examples
Jesus komm bakka
va
riba Jordan.
Yesus
Jesus
kon
come
baka
back
fu
from
riba
river
Yordan.
Jordan
Jesus came back from the river Jordan.
See
Schumann 1781
: 29
sinsi dem ben kommotto bakka na Babel [...]
sensi
since
den
3pl
ben
pst
komoto
come.out
baka
back
na
loc
Babel
Babel
[...]
[...]
since they came back from Babel [...].
See
Schumann 1781
: 6
Hoe zan den ben takki da tem joe kommote na fransi konderi.
O=san
q
=thing
den
3pl
ben
pst
taki
say
da
det
.
pl
ten
time
yu
2sg
komoto
come.out
na
loc
Frans
French
kondre.
country
What did they say when you left France?
Dutch:
Wat zei men te Parys op uw vertrek. [Dutch; op.cit.]
See
van Dyk ca. 1765
: 36
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