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Value Old generic-noun-based indefinites continuing somebody/something
Language:
Kriol
Parameter:
Indefinite pronouns
Examples
Sambadi bin
get
meda.
Sambadi
somebody
bin
pst
get
pass
meda.
murdered
Somebody got murdered.
Laik yunmi taimap
jamjing,
intit.
Laik
like
yunmi
1du
.
incl
tai-im-ap
tie-
tr
-up
jamjing,
something
intit.
tag
Like you and I tie up something, right?
Bat sambala bin tok: "Yu labda kaman; woda
gada gajimap wi." Gudjob thad olgumen bin lafta mub
.
Bat
but
sam-bala
some-
adj2
bin
pst
tok:
say
"Yu
2sg
labda
oblig
kaman;
come
woda
water
gada
fut
/
oblig
gajimap
reach:
tr
wi."
1pl
Gud-job
good-job
thad
dem
olgumen
woman
bin
pst
lafta
oblig
mub.
move
But some people said: "You have to come (because) the water is going to reach us." Just as well that woman had to move.
See
Angelo et al. 1998
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