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Example 25-116
Thet
olgamanolgaman
olabat jingat na "[...]".
Thet
dem
olgaman~olgaman
red
.older.woman
olabat
3pl
jing-at
sing-out
na
now
"[...]".
[...]
Those women, they call out now: "[...]"
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the use of reduplication of nouns with human reference to indicate plurality.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Special dependent person forms for subject and object: Only dependent subject forms
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural reduplication
Functions of reduplication: Only iconic functions
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