Datapoint Aboriginal English/No subordination; chaining construction linking two main verbs (motion and activity)

Variety: Aboriginal English
Feature: No subordination; chaining construction linking two main verbs (motion and activity)
Value: B - feature is neither pervasive nor extremely rare
Informants: Ian Malcolm

Examples

Example 3930:
Ø No rain they don't camp in the cave
If there's no rain they don't camp in the cave'

Source: Kaldor and Malcolm 1991: 74

Example 3931:
And I jumped over the back fence, got the cans, brung them around in the window

Source: Eagleson et al. (eds.) 1982: 118