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Example 25-146
Brom top, yu ken luk ole haus ebriwea.
Brom
from
top,
top
yu
2sg
ken
can
luk
see
ole
pl
haus
house
ebriwea.
everywhere
From the top, you can see the houses everywhere.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates the plural word
ole
as a plural marker.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural word preceding the noun
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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