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Example 25-277
Wan wi bin kid
mi en he.
Wan
temp
wi
1pl
bin
pst
kid
child
mi
1sg
en
and
he.
3sg
.
f
When we were children, me and her.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates pronominal conjunction and a predicative noun phrase. This is acrolectal speech because of the 3rd singular feminine pronoun.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Noun phrase conjunction and comitative: Differentiation
Predicative noun phrases: No copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Identity
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