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Example 25-134
Nomo gata lif, thislot botel tri.
Nomo
neg
gata
com
lif,
leaf
this-lot
prox
-
pl
botel
bottle
tri.
tree
They don’t have leaves, these bottle trees!
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates the plural word
thislot/dijlot
as a plural marker with an inanimate noun.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
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