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Example 16-1
polismã ì bi laik wumã
polismã
policeman
ì
3sg
bi
cop
laik
like
wumã
woman
Policemen are like women.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Huber 1999
: 234
Language:
Ghanaian Pidgin English
by
Magnus Huber
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Generic noun phrases in subject function: Bare singular noun phrase in languages with definite article
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