Test Sentences, 118

Continuing with Gary’s list:

  1. Hurry, children.
  2. Madam, I will obey your command.

Ah, vocatives. I don’t think I will do anything special with vocatives. It’ll be clear in the intonation. But I keep going back and forth on whether daka ought to be in the destination slot or not.

154. hɨsna, ŋɨdna tɨŋi daka tandeya ka.

hɨsna
child.MTpl
 
pause
ŋɨdna
2P.MTpl
tɨŋi
tɨŋi.IMP
daka
path.SS
tandeya
quickly
ka
CMD

155. kyɛnɛ tatat lene tɨŋi syɨdɨtya dɛga.

kyɛnɛ
woman
 
pause
tatat
command.SSsg
lene
1P.MTsg
tɨŋi
tɨŋi.IMP
syɨdɨtya
obediently
dɛga
FUT

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