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Example 25-283
[...] wen ai bin yangwan.
[...]
[...]
wen
subord
ai
1sg
bin
pst
yang-wan.
young-
adj
[...] when I was young.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates a predicative adjective in the past tense, marked by the auxiliary
bin.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative adjectives: No copula
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