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Example 25-299
Yu kam
brom
Risos Senta.
Yu
2sg
kam
come
brom
from
Risos
Resource
Senta.
Centre
You come from the Resource Centre.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the use of an adpositionally marked place name as source with a verb of motion.This example is part of a route description.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Coming from named places: Preposition
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