ǃʻama

See also: ǃama, ǂʻama, and ǁʻama

Nǀuu

Noun

ǃʻama

1. reason

   tya ǃʻama ke…

   it is reason that …

   tya ke ng ǃʻama. Na ǀaqra.

   THAT is the reason. I refuse.

References

• Güldemann, Tom, and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. "The risks of analysis without spoken language corpora: clause-second ke in Richtersveld Nama and Nǁng." International Workshop “Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora (ISSLaC)”, University of Bielefeld. 2013.
• Güldemann, Tom, and J. Lee. "From pragmatics to sentence type: non-topical S/A arguments and clause-second particles in the Kalahari Basin." 言語研究 (Gengo Kenkyu) 154 (2019): 53-84.
• Güldemann, Tom. (2010). The relation between focus and theticity in the Tuu family. 10.1075/tsl.91.03gul.