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Example 25-170
I got
wan mo geit tharrei.
I
3sg
got
have
wan
one
mo
more
geit
gate
tharr-ei.
dist
-
dir
There is one more gate over there.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the existential construction.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Indefinite articles: Indefinite article identical to numeral ‘one’
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is used
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Identity
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