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Example 25-29
Imin la Ningbingi yet, afta imin go
la
Agail
then.
Im=in
3sg
=
pst
la
loc
Ningbingi
Ningbingi
yet,
yet
afta
afterwards
im=in
3sg
=
pst
go
go
la
loc
Agail
Argyle
then.
then
He was in Ningbingi at that time, afterwards he went to Argyle.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the use of an adpositionally marked place name as goal with a verb of motion.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Predicative locative phrases: No copula
Going to named places: Preposition
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