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Kayardild
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Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives
Language:
Kayardild
Feature:
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives
by
Balthasar Bickel
and
Johanna Nichols
Value:
Case + TAM
Examples
Sentence igt-1880:
Ngada kurri-nangku mala-y.
Ngada
1
sg
.
nom
kurri-nangku
see-
neg
.POTENTIAL
mala-y.
sea-
loc
.ACTUAL
I could not see the sea.
Sentence igt-1881:
Ngada kurri-nangku mala-wu.
Ngada
1
sg
.
nom
kurri-nangku
see-
neg
.POTENTIAL
mala-wu.
sea- PROPRIETIVE.
fut
I won’t (be able to) see the sea.
References
Evans 1995
cite
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