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  NAME lie ground ALL bed-DEF upper_surface
 
  NAME lie ground ALL bed-DEF upper_surface
 
‘Sika lay on the bed’
 
‘Sika lay on the bed’
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!Mɔ́-á dzí-é me-fɔ-e le
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road-DEF upper_surface-aFOC 1SG-find-3SG at
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‘ON THE ROAD I found it’
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!*le mɔ́-á dzí-é me-fɔ-e
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at road-DEF upper_surface-aFOC 1SG-find-3SG

Revision as of 23:11, 5 April 2012

Prepositions and postpositions in Ewe: Empirical and theoretical considerations  
Type Book chapter
Author(s) Felix K. Ameka
Publication title Typologie des langues d'Afrique et universaux de la grammaire
Publisher L'Harmattan: Paris
Publication date 2003
Pages 43-66
Annotator Theresa M. Sedzro

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Glossed texts by Author

Siká mlɔ́ abatí-á dzí
NAME lie bed-DEF upper-surface

‘Sika lay on the bed’

Kofǐ tá-ná tsó-ná xɔ-a me
NAME crawl-HAB come_from-HAB room-DEF IN

'Kofi crawls from the room'

Siká tá ɖé abatí-á
NAME lean ALL bed-DEF 

‘Sika leaned against the bed’

Kofǐ tá-ná tsó xɔ-a me
NAME crawl-HAB come_from room-DEF IN

'Kofi crawls from the room'

Siká mlɔ́ anyi ɖé abatí-á dzí
NAME lie ground ALL bed-DEF upper_surface

‘Sika lay on the bed’

Mɔ́-á dzí-é me-fɔ-e le
road-DEF upper_surface-aFOC 1SG-find-3SG at

‘ON THE ROAD I found it’

*le mɔ́-á dzí-é me-fɔ-e
at road-DEF upper_surface-aFOC 1SG-find-3SG