Example 25-229

Halideitaim yuno wi bin oldei wok dijey la Ivanhoe.
Halidei-taim
holiday-time
yuno
you.know
wi
we
bin
pst
oldei
always/hab
wok
walk
dij-ey
prox-dir
la
loc
Ivanhoe.
Ivanhoe.
In the holidays we used to walk over here to Ivanhoe station.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the position of the adverb oldei as a marker of habituality, and the use of an adpositionally marked place name as goal with a verb of motion.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt