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Example 25-251
Then from theya ai bin go la wot this pleis.
Then
then
from
from
theya
there
ai
1sg
bin
pst
go
go
la
loc
wot
what
this
prox
pleis.
place
Then from there I went to what’s this place.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates a motion expression with source and goal specified, and the specific 1st person subject pronoun
ai.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Alignment of case marking of personal pronouns: Accusative alignment
Motion-to and motion-from: Differentiation
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