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Example 25-334
Im
sabi
thet taka.
Im
3sg
sabi
know
thet
dem
taka.
tucker
She knows that (plant) food.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates the verb of knowing
sabi
followed by a nominal complement.
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
Savvy: A savvy word exists
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