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Example 25-220
Yubala bin wana pulum.
Yubala
2pl
bin
pst
wana
pot
pul-um.
pull-
tr
You should have pulled him (out).
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the order of tense and mood marking.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, a few lexical items may intervene
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