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Example 25-3
Fish yu bin getim.
Fish
fish
yu
2sg
bin
pst
get-im.
get-
tr
Fish you got.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates OSV as a marked word order for object focus.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs: Stative verbs with present reference and dynamic verbs with past perfective reference are marked differently
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