Datapoint Mangarrayi / The Associative Plural

Language:	Mangarrayi
Feature:	The Associative Plural by Michael Daniel and Edith Moravcsik
Value:	Unique affixal associative plural

Examples

Sentence igt-1705:

ŋaḷa - Jilimbirŋa - ʔmingan wuḷa - ya - j ṇa - yarayŋ - gu

ŋaḷa

Fnom

-

-

Jilimbirŋa

name

-

-

ʔmingan

focal

wuḷa

3Pl

-

-

ya

go

-

-

j

pp

ṇa

nPurp

-

-

yarayŋ

Aponogeton

-

-

gu

Purp

Jilimbirŋa’s group went forAponogeton (a water plant)

Sentence igt-1706:

ŋaya - Jilimbirŋa - ʔmingan ŋa - ṇiri

ŋaya

Fdat

-

-

Jilimbirŋa

J.-

-

focal

ʔmingan

1sg/3sg

ŋa

-

-

bring

ṇiri

PC

I brought it for J.’s group

Sentence igt-1707:

ŋaya - Jilimbirŋa - ʔmingan - gan ŋa - ṇi

ŋaya - Jilimbirŋa - ʔmingan - gan

Floc - J.- focal    -Loc

ŋa - ṇi

1sg - sit PC

I was sitting with J.’s group

References

• Merlan 1982