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Example 25-183
Yuno wot kain
dij G.
Yuno
you_know
wot
what
kain
kind
dij
prox
G.
G.
You know what kind (of person) this G. is. (In the context: He's the kind of person who always gets frightened.)
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates the proximal demonstrative
dij
in adnominal function.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Distance contrasts in demonstratives: Two-way contrast
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