Example 25-319

Yu telim olabat hau yu wana seiv thet taka, fo yuself.
Yu
2sg
tel-im
tell-tr
olabat
3pl
hau
how
yu
2sg
wana
want.to
seiv
save
thet
dem
taka,
tucker
fo
for
yuself.
yourself
You tell them how you want to save that food for yourself.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the verb of speech telim with an indirect speech complement. The use of the interrogative complementizer hau and the second person intensive pronoun yuself rather than invariable mijelb are acrolectal-features.
Type:
translation in elicitation of other language
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt