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Example 25-294
Im kambek Sandei, im go
Kananarra.
Im
3sg
kam-bek
come-back
Sandei,
Sunday
im
3sg
go
go
Kananarra.
Kununurra
She'll come back on Sunday and will go to Kununurra.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the use of an (unmarked) 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:
Going to named places: No adpositional/case marking
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