Example 25-253

Ai bin telim yu thei bin fraiten.
Ai
1sg
bin
pst
tel-im
tell-tr
yu
2sg
thei
3pl
bin
pst
fraiten.
frightened
I (just) told you, they were frightened.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates verb of speech telim an indirect speech complement.
Type:
translation in elicitation of other language
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt