Datapoint Ngiyambaa / The Associative Plural

Language:Ngiyambaa
Feature:The Associative Plural by Michael Daniel and Edith Moravcsik
Value:Associative same as additive plural

Examples

Sentence igt-1614:
Mamie - gam - bula: manabi - nji
Mamie
Mamie
-
-
gam
NAME
-
-
bula:
du+abs
manabi
hunt
-
-
nji
PAST
Mamie, together with one other person, went hunting.
Sentence igt-1615:
Mamie - gam - bula: Eva - gam - bula: manabi - nji
Mamie
Mamie
-
-
gam
NAME
-
-
bula:
du+abs
Eva
Eva
-
-
gam
NAME
-
-
bula:
du+abs
manabi
hunt
-
-
nji
PAST
Mamie and Eva went hunting.
Sentence igt-1616:
Mamie - gam - buy manabi - nji
Mamie - gam - buy
NAME - pl+abs
manabi - nji
hunt - PAST
Mamie, together with more than one other person, went hunting.
Sentence igt-1617:
bulagar miri
bulagar
du
miri
dog
two dogs

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