Another environment for the ro' topic marker in Copala Triqui is what I'm calling the reversed copula construction.
Regular copulas have the normal order
Predicate copula Subject
as in examples like the following:
The reversed construction instead has the order
Subject copula Predicate
and the ro' topic marker often shows up on the subject here, as in the following examples:
Regular copulas have the normal order
Predicate copula Subject
as in examples like the following:
The reversed construction instead has the order
Subject copula Predicate
and the ro' topic marker often shows up on the subject here, as in the following examples:
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