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<div dir="auto">Dear Jesús,<br>
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In Korean there is a similar adverb: cwuk-e-la 'till death'. <br>
cwuk-e-la il-hay-ss-ta<br>
die-INF-ADV work-do-PST-DECL<br>
'[I] worked hard, lit. until death.'</div>
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from Uppsala,
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<div name="messageReplySection">On 5 Jan 2022, 4:57 PM +0100, Jesus Francisco Olguin Martinez <olguinmartinez@ucsb.edu>, wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">I hope this email finds you well.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style="">I send you this message because in my sample there are a couple of African languages (e.g. Tommo So and Bangime) that
<span style="color:black;text-align:justify">have a narrative construction in which the</span>
<i style="color:black;text-align:justify">until</i><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">-clause appears with a verb meaning ‘to get tired’ (e.g.
<i>I worked I worked until I get tired</i>). </span><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">Note that this clause does not necessarily denote literal weariness or physical fatigue. Instead, this construction is used in contexts where speakers express that
they carried out an activity for a very long time (e.g. <i>I worked I worked for a very long time</i>). In this type of construction, </span><span style="color:black;text-align:justify"> the first clause in linear order denotes a prolonged activity and is
followed by a clause meaning ‘until I got tired’ emphasizing the extreme prolongation of the first situation. </span></font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">I was wondering if you know any study that has explored this type of construction or if you know any other African languages that have this
type of construction.</span></font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="color:black;text-align:justify;font-family:georgia,serif">Thank you very much in advance.</span><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">Best,</span></font></div>
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<font face="AR CENA"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Jesús Olguín Martínez</span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="AR CENA">Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Linguistics</font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="AR CENA"><i>University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)</i></font></span></font></div>
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