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Example 25-194
Imin gaman
gadim
im lambarra.
Im=in
3sg
=
pst
gaman
come
gadim
com
/
ins
im
3sg
lambarra.
father.in.law
He came with his father-in-law.
Comment:
Variety: Roper River. The example illustrates a comitative expression and an unmarked pronoun in possessive function.
Lambarra
is a wide-spread word for father-in-law throughout the region.
Type:
unknown
Source:
Sandefur 1979
: 158
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of pronominal possessors: Preceding word
Comitatives and instrumentals: Identity
Noun phrase conjunction and comitative: Differentiation
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