po¹ shorter form of ponu ‘that’, always clause-medial

• • shorter form of ponu ‘that’, always clause-medial
  • • Gram

  Sense Comment

  somet

  • • Example 2108:
      

      Buka ono po, tone peini tivi?

      That notebook of yours, how much did it cost?

    • Example 2109:
      

      Ka mwaliko po i-ko “Wako.”

      The man said “Alright.”

      Example Comment

      recognitional use

      Example URL

      https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S87

    • Example 2110:
      

      Tepapa i-dai ka ne mane po, li-vo aero i-dai.

      The stomping boards were laid out all around the dancing area; then they erected a fence around them.

      Example Comment

      clause topicalizer ([ponu](ponu_1))

      Example URL

      https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S126

Related entries

• Heterosemes:
  • po² relativiser / when, whenever
• Main Entry:
  • ponu¹ that, close to or associated with you: 2nd-degree demonstrative, anchored on the addressee / that, mentioned by you or in our dialogue. Points to an easily retrievable referent / definite determiner, referring either to discourse or to shared knowledge / noun-phrase topicalizer / clause topicalizer: marks a clause as backgrounded, before introducing a foregrounded main clause; hence ‘since X…, Y’, or ‘as X…, Y’, or ‘X…, then Y’