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Example 76-47
ababa pī'tcȗk
ababa
say
pī'tcȗk
not
Shut up!
Comment:
Stefánsson (1909: 222) comments that, according to context, the example may also mean 'He said nothing', 'I said nothing', etc.
Type:
reconstructed by documentalist
Source:
Stefánsson 1909
: 222
Language:
Eskimo Pidgin
by
Hein van der Voort
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
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