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Example 25-324
Nobodi neva
putimbat mai haus.
Nobodi
nobody
neva
neg2
put-im-bat
put-
tr
-
prog
mai
1sg
.
poss
haus.
house
Nobody ever builds my house.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates a negative construction with a negative indefinite pronoun.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
Negation and indefinite pronouns: Co-occurrence with predicate negation
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