Value Adverb – verb – object

Language:
Kriol
Parameter:
Order of frequency adverb, verb, and object
References
Hudson 1985

Examples

  1. Jamtaim wi tok lengguij jirrama.
    Jamtaim
    sometimes
    wi
    1pl.excl
    tok
    speak
    lengguij
    language
    jirrama.
    two
    Sometimes we speak two languages.
  2. Ai bin oldei lisen mai olmen.
    Ai
    1sg
    bin
    pst
    oldei
    always/hab
    lisen
    listen
    mai
    1sg:poss
    olmen.
    old.man
    I always/habitually listened to my old man (i.e. father).
  3. Gardiya bin oldei ringim thet bel.
    Gardiya
    white.person
    bin
    pst
    oldei
    always/hab
    ring-im
    ring-tr
    thet
    dem
    bel.
    bell
    A white person used to ring a bell every day. (context: work on the cattle stations, when speaker was young).
  4. Ai bin gowin skul orlataim. Afda tharran ai orlas kambek en abam dina en go pleibat garra orla kid.
    Ai
    1sg
    bin
    pst
    gow-in
    go-prog2
    skul
    school
    orlataim.
    always
    Afda
    after
    tharran
    dist:adj
    ai
    1sg
    orlas
    always
    kam-bek
    come-back
    en
    and
    ab-am
    have-tr
    dina
    dinner
    en
    and
    go
    go
    plei-bat
    play-prog
    garra
    com/ins
    orla
    pl
    kid.
    child
    I used to go to school every day. After school I would come back and have dinner and then go and play with the children.

    See Hudson 1985: 32