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Example apa-130
Apalaí
(
Koehn and Koehn 1986
: 80
)
oriʔ-pɨ
die-NEG
m-a
3-COP.PRS
ro
yet
repe
FRUST
t-ɨnanpo-se
CPL-poison-CPL
eʃi-rɨ-ke.
be-NMLZ-because
morara
thus
eʃi-rɨ-ke
COP-NMLZ-because
ɨna
-n-urumeka-ne
1+3-3-leave-REM
raʔkene
really
He would not have died but (he did) because he was poisoned. Therefore we left.
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