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Example 25-290
Septibin yu gotim?
Septibin
safety.pin
yu
2sg
got-im?
have-
tr
Do you have a safety pin?
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates a polar question with a fronted object, and the transitive possessive verb.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative possession: Transitive
Polar questions: Only interrogative intonation
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