Example 25-131
Im kukumbat eig.
He is cooking eggs.
- Comment:
- Variety: Spoken Roper River. This example illustrates the present tense interpretation of unmarked verbs and the possibility of plural interpretation with unmarked nouns (eig 'egg' is clearly plural in context of the story).
- Type:
- naturalistic spoken
- Source:
- Sandefur and Sandefur 1982: 65