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Example 25-147
Wot abat yubala jiftim olabat dijlat pikanini?!
Wot
what
abat
about
yubala
2pl
jift-im
shift-
tr
olabat
3pl
dij-lat
prox
-
pl
pikanini?!
child
How about you lot move them, these children?!
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the use of a plural marker with a noun with human reference, the term for 'child'
pikanini.
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
Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun: Differentiation
Alignment of case marking of personal pronouns: Accusative alignment
Pequenino: A word derived from pequenino exists
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