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Example 24-151
Dem goe Up Cooks.
Dem
3pl
goe
go
Up
deic
Cooks.
Cook.
poss
They are going to Cooks' Monument.
Comment:
Dem
is usually animate.
Up
is a deictic spatial marker.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own fieldwork
Language:
Norf'k
by
Peter Mühlhäusler
cite
Datapoints:
Going to named places: Preposition
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