Datapoint Aboriginal English/Never as preverbal past tense negator

Variety: Aboriginal English
Feature: Never as preverbal past tense negator
Value: A - feature is pervasive or obligatory
Informants: Ian Malcolm

Examples

Example 3901:
I never went to sleep in the Prospector
I didn't go to sleep in the Prospector train'

Source: Kaldor and Malcom 1979: 426