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Example 22-86
Mipela ol Papua Niugini i save kaikai kaukau long nait.
Mipela
1pl
.
excl
ol
pl
Papua
Papua
Niugini
New.Guinea
i
pm
save
hab
kaikai
eat
kaukau
sweet.potato
long
prep
nait.
night
We Papua New Guineans usually eat sweet potato at night.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Dutton and Thomas 1985
: 89
Language:
Tok Pisin
by
Geoff P. Smith
and
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
Uses of the habitual marker: Only habitual function
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