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Example 14-47
He took the third book, and she took the fourth book.
He
he
took
took
the
the
third
third
book,
book
and
and
she
she
took
took
the
the
fourth
fourth
book.
book
He took the third book and she took the fourth book.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
African American English
by
Lisa Green
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
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