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Example 25-24
Dei bin ol luginat la im.
Dei
3pl
bin
pst
ol
all
lug-in-at
look-
prog
-at
la
loc
im.
3sg
They all looked at him.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Roper River. The example illustrates the past tense auxiliary and the order of adposition and pronoun.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Sandefur and Sandefur 1982
: 61
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
Position of tense, aspect, and mood markers in relation to the verb: In a leftward position
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, a few lexical items may intervene
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