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Example 76-46
awoña iglupȗk ĕlĕkta
awoña
I
iglupȗk
barracks
ĕlĕkta
go
I am going (I went) to Fort McPherson.
Comment:
This is one of the few examples that are provided by Stefánsson (1909) with both a present and a past translation, showing the temporal ambiguity of the verb.
Type:
reconstructed by documentalist
Source:
Stefánsson 1909
: 224
Language:
Eskimo Pidgin
by
Hein van der Voort
cite
Datapoints:
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs: The language has no or only one TAM marker
Going to named places: No adpositional/case marking
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