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Example 16-124
ʃek jɔ̀ bɔdi smɔ
ʃek
shake
jɔ̀
2sg
.
poss
bɔdi
body
smɔ
small
Shake yourself a little. OR: Shake your body a little.
Comment:
Some ambiguous examples of
bɔdi
do occur in my corpus, but a reflexive reading is only one of two possible interpretations.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Huber 1999
: 202
Language:
Ghanaian Pidgin English
by
Magnus Huber
cite
Datapoints:
Reflexive constructions: Reflexive pronoun with ‘body’ or body-part
Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns: Intensifiers and reflexives overlap
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