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Example 17-83
Mek yù go tawn.
Mek
sbjv
yù
2sg
.
sbj
go
go
tawn.
town
Go to town. OR: You should/must go to town.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Faraclas 1996
: 26
Language:
Nigerian Pidgin
by
Nicholas Faraclas
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
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