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Example 25-41
Olman Dadi bin tok la im, G. tubala [...].
Olman
old.man
Dadi
Daddy
bin
pst
tok
talk
la
loc
im,
3sg
G.
G.
tubala
two
[...].
[...]
The old man, Daddy, said to him, [to] G. and the other one [...].
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates the inclusory use of a combination of a noun followed by the numeral 'two' (as dual marker).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Order of cardinal numeral and noun: Numeral follows noun
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