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Example 25-23
Yu nomo washim bla mi kloth.
Yu
2sg
nomo
neg
wash-im
wash-
tr
bla
dat
/
poss
mi
1sg
kloth.
clothes
You never wash my clothes for me. (uttered as a complaint)
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates the dative preposition
bla(nga),
the negative marker
nomo
and the 1st and 2nd person singular pronouns.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Person syncretism in independent personal pronouns: No person syncretism
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Indirect-object construction
'Give' serial verb constructions: No ‘give’ serials exist
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
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