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Example 72-87
Don pirrkkarra laim.
Don
neg
pirrk-karra
snatch-
cont
la=im.
obl
-
3sg
Don't snatch it from him.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meakins 2011
: 415
Language:
Gurindji Kriol
by
Felicity Meakins
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and special negator
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