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Example 25-234
Mibala wandim bla gugumbat taga.
Mibala
1pl
wand-im
want-
tr
bla
dat
/
poss
gug-um-bat
cook-
tr
-
prog
taga.
tucker
We want it (fire) for cooking food.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Roper River. The example illustrates an unmarked verb in present tense interpretation.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Sandefur and Sandefur 1982
: 61
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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