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Example 13-1
Calvary couldn hol de people.
Calvary
Calvary
couldn
can.
pst
-
neg
hol
hold
de
the
people.
people
Calvary couldn't hold the people.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Turner [1949] 2002
: 268
Language:
Gullah
by
Thomas B. Klein
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
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