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Example 25-95
Dijan langa Leguna
tubala
bin tokin.
Dijan
prox
:
adj
langa
loc
Leguna
Legune
tubala
3du
bin
pst
tok-in.
talk-
prog2
It was at Legune that the two were talking.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates a 3rd person dual pronoun.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Dual in independent personal pronouns: Dual form in all three persons
Uses of the progressive marker: Only progressive function
Alignment of case marking of personal pronouns: Accusative alignment
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