Datapoint Kriol/Passive constructions

Value 1 was chosen even though the passive construction may not be fully productive; in any case it is not very frequent. It is formed by combining the grammatical verb get~git with a form of the lexical verb which often appears to be a frozen form of the corresponding English participle (which does not occur in any other construction). The passive is analogous to the adjectival inchoative construction which also involves get~git, as in Wel imin git kwait na 'Well, he became quiet then.' (Example 107).

Values

Typical passive construction

Example 25-128:
Sambadi bin get meda.
Sambadi
somebody
bin
pst
get
pass
meda.
murdered
Somebody got murdered.
Example 25-311:
Thet min yu bin get ben.
Thet
dem
min
mean
yu
2sg
bin
pst
get
pass
ben.
burned
That means you got burned.
Example 25-312:
"Aa, pobala dis tawun. Imin git draund." im lathad.
"Aa,
ah
pobala
poor.thing
dis
prox
tawun.
town
Im=in
3sg=pst
git
get
draund."
drowned
im
3sg
lathad.
like.that
"Ah, this poor town. It got drowned", he said.

Source: Angelo et al. 1998

Example 25-313:
Detlat kulus bin git berndap.
Det-lat
dem-pl
kulus
clothes
bin
pst
git
get
bernd-ap.
burned-up
Those clothes were burned (and consumed).

Source: Hudson 1985: 106

Confidence:
Intermediate