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Example 25-217
Dei bin dali melabat laikdat na,
C-mob
.
Dei
3pl
bin
pst
dali
tell:
tr
melabat
1pl
.
excl
laikdat
quot
na,
now
C-mob.
C-
coll
That's what they told us, C's family (did).
Comment:
Variety: Katherine. This example illustrates the associative plural function of the collective suffix
-mob.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Angelo et al. 1998
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
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