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Example 25-120
Imin rakamen la olabat en puta ngalarr la olabat.
Im=in
3sg
=
pst
rakamen
argue
la
loc
olabat
3pl
en
and
puta
put
ngalarr
policeman
la
loc
olabat.
3pl
He argued with them and put the police on their tracks.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrate the invariable pronoun
olabat
'3PL'.
Ngalarr
is a Jaminjung word.
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
Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun: Differentiation
Nominal and verbal conjunction: Identity, overtly expressed
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