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Example 25-289
Thei langa yad.
Thei
3pl
langa
loc
yad.
yard
They [are] in the yard. (referring to chickens)
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates a verbless predicative locative prepositional phrase.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative locative phrases: No copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Identity
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