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Example 17-121
Mà pot de smo̱l.
Mà
1sg
.
poss
pot
pot
de
cop
.
loc
smo̱l.
be.small.
nmlz
My pot is small (lit. My pot is located in a state of being small).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Faraclas 1996
: 224
Language:
Nigerian Pidgin
by
Nicholas Faraclas
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative adjectives: Variable copula
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