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Ngiyambaa
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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 - gam - bula:
Mamie - NAME -
du
+
abs
manabi - nji
hunt - PAST
Mamie, together with one other person, went hunting.
Sentence igt-1615:
Mamie - gam - bula: Eva - gam - bula: manabi - nji
Mamie - gam - bula:
Mamie - NAME -
du
+
abs
Eva - gam - bula:
Eva - NAME -
du
+
abs
manabi - nji
hunt - 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
References
Donaldson 1980
cite
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