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Example 18-1
A don tchop bif.
A
1sg
.
sbj
don
pfv
tchop
eat
bif.
meat
I have eaten meat.
Type:
published source
Source:
Féral 1989
: 65
Language:
Cameroon Pidgin English
by
Anne Schröder
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Position of tense, aspect, and mood markers in relation to the verb: Immediately preceding the verb
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
Marking of patient noun phrases: No marking of patient NPs
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Indirect-object construction
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