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Dagbani
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Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
Language:
Dagbani
Feature:
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
by
Martin Haspelmath
Value:
Differentiation
Examples
Sentence igt-804:
doo ŋɔ mini m ba
doo
man
ŋɔ
this
mini
and
m
my
ba
father
this man and my father
Sentence igt-805:
O biɛ ka kɔɣisi.
O
he
biɛ
be.bad
ka
and
kɔɣisi.
be.thin
He is bad and thin.
Sentence igt-806:
Gbuɣima ŋubiri nimdi ka jansi diri kɔdu.
Gbuɣima
lion.
pl
ŋubiri
chew.IMPF
nimdi
meat
ka
and
jansi
monkey.
pl
diri
eat.IMPF
kɔdu.
banana
Lions eat meat and monkeys eat bananas.
References
Olawsky 1999
cite
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