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Example 25-137
Imin ded silip eniwei la ola rok.
Im=in
3sg
=
pst
ded
dead
silip
sleep
eniwei
anyway
la
loc
ola
pl
rok.
rock
He went sound asleep on the rocks.
Comment:
Variety: Written Roper River. The example illustrates a plural marker with an inanimate noun.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Galmurr and Willika 1996
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
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