Datapoint Aboriginal English/Use of zero article where StE has indefinite article

Variety: Aboriginal English
Feature: Use of zero article where StE has indefinite article
Value: A - feature is pervasive or obligatory
Informants: Ian Malcolm

Examples

Example 3854:
We was playing Ø game
We were playing a game'

Source: Eagleson et al. (eds.) 1982: 86

Example 3855:
There Ø was big mob of crows on tree with the cockies

Source: Rochecouste and Malcolm 2003: 19