Test Sentences, 66

Continuing with Gary’s list:

  1. At noon we ate our lunch by the roadside.

Hah. Already have a word for noon! And like any one-word time phrase, it can go in the source slot. And by the roadside involves a serial predicate. Since the food is also by the roadside dantɛndɛ tona, this works. Eating, by the way, uses ono.

92. lɨnanda lɛnna kye gogɨdiya tono dantɛndɛ tona.

lɨnanda
noon
lɛnna
1P.MTpl
kye
belly.MT
gogɨdiya
food.MTpl
tono
ono.PRF
dan-
along
tɛndɛ
tɛndɛ.IMP
tona
path.SSsg

Hmm. This could also mean “we ate the food that was by the road.”

Questions?