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Example 25-239
Wal dudei wi laki, yu no. Wi
garrim
faiya.
Wal
well
dudei
today
wi
1pl
laki,
lucky
yu
2sg
no.
know
Wi
1pl
garr-im
have-
tr
faiya.
fire
Well today we're lucky, you know. We have fire.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Roper River. The example illustrates the transitive possessive verb (considered as stative).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Sandefur and Sandefur 1982
: 61
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative possession: Transitive
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Identity
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