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Example 14-7
The kid got asthma.
The
art
kid
kid
has
has
asthma
asthma
The kid has asthma.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Mufwene 1998
: 71
Language:
African American English
by
Lisa Green
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Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Position of definite article in the noun phrase: Definite article is preposed
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