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Example 25-210
Nomo
gota
meit=gun im jidanabat [...] olgaman G.
Nomo
neg
gota
com
meit=gun
mate=
contr
im
3sg
jidan-abat
sit-
prog
[...]
[...]
olgaman
old.woman
G.
G.
Without any companion she's sitting there, old lady G.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates a comitative expression, and the progressive marker
-(a)bat.
The contrastive clitic
=gun
is from Jaminjung.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Position of tense, aspect, and mood markers in relation to the verb: Immediately following the verb
Uses of the progressive marker: Only progressive function
Comitatives and instrumentals: Identity
Noun phrase conjunction and comitative: Differentiation
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