[BOOK][B] A grammar of Toqabaqita
F Lichtenberk - 2008 - degruyter.com
F Lichtenberk
2008•degruyter.comAppendix Texts Page 1 Appendix Texts Text 1: A young man and an ancestral spirit Narrator:
Reuel Riianoa 1. Si manga qeri laqu, nau kwai uqunu laqu PRTT time this ADD 1SG 1SG.FUT
narrate ADD suli-a rua-na si uqunu laqu boqo, suli-a PROL-3.OBJ two-3.PERS DIM story
ADD ASRT PROL-3.OBJ teqe noniqi wane. one CLF man ‘This time too/again I will tell
another little story, about a man.’ 2. Wane qeri wan=daraa n=naqa, man that man=be.young.and.single
LIG=PRF thaama-na wane baqita naqa, sui nia father-3.PERS man be.big PRF but 3SG wan=daraa …
Reuel Riianoa 1. Si manga qeri laqu, nau kwai uqunu laqu PRTT time this ADD 1SG 1SG.FUT
narrate ADD suli-a rua-na si uqunu laqu boqo, suli-a PROL-3.OBJ two-3.PERS DIM story
ADD ASRT PROL-3.OBJ teqe noniqi wane. one CLF man ‘This time too/again I will tell
another little story, about a man.’ 2. Wane qeri wan=daraa n=naqa, man that man=be.young.and.single
LIG=PRF thaama-na wane baqita naqa, sui nia father-3.PERS man be.big PRF but 3SG wan=daraa …
ASRT girl that ‘He came (home), arrived to his mother and told his mother,“Oh, mother, I was walking and I, I met a girl. I looked at the girl. The girl, she was truly beautiful. No woman is as beautiful as she is. And the girl liked me, and I, too, liked the girl.”.’
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