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Example 25-107
Wel imin git kwait na.
Wel
well
im=in
3sg
=
pst
git
get
kwait
quiet
na.
now
Well, he became quiet then.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Roper River. This example illustrates the 3rd person singular pronoun cliticized onto the past tense marker. It also illustrates the formation of inchoative expressions with adjectival predicates.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Sandefur and Sandefur 1982
: 65
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Person syncretism in independent personal pronouns: No person syncretism
Aspect markers and inchoative meaning: No inchoative meaning with aspect markers
Syllable codas: Codas at most moderately complex
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