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Example 25-99
Wot kain
yunmi
gona toktok?
Wot
what
kain
kind
yunmi
1du
.
incl
gona
fut
tok~tok?
red
.talk
What (i.e. which language) are we going to speak?
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates the
yunmi
variant of the 1st person dual inclusive pronoun, as well as future marking and verbal reduplication.
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
Position of tense, aspect, and mood markers in relation to the verb: Immediately preceding the verb
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