Value Old generic-noun-based indefinites continuing somebody/something

Language:
Kriol
Parameter:
Indefinite pronouns

Examples

  1. Sambadi bin get meda.
    Sambadi
    somebody
    bin
    pst
    get
    pass
    meda.
    murdered
    Somebody got murdered.
  2. 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?
  3. 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