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Example 25-248
Don go gota but!
Don
neg
.
imp
go
go
gota
com
but!
boot
Don't go with boots (on)!
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates the special prohibitive auxiliary
don
'don't'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and special negator
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