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Example 25-138
Ai bin bilimap olda eig.
Ai
1sg
bin
pst
bil-im-ap
fill-
tr
-up
olda
pl
eig.
egg
I filled it up with the eggs.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Roper River. The example illustrates
olda
as a plural marker with an inanimate noun.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Sandefur and Sandefur 1982
: 65
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural word preceding the noun
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