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Example 25-26
Yu go la im bla meit!
Yu
2sg
go
go
la
loc
im
3sg
bla
dat
/
poss
meit!
mate
Go to her as a mate! (i.e. as companion)
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates the locative preposition
la(nga)
and the dative/possessive preposition
bla(nga).
Type:
translation in elicitation of other language
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Politeness distinctions in second-person pronouns: No pronominal politeness distinction
'Give' serial verb constructions: No ‘give’ serials exist
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