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Example 18-134
Mary si
im bodi
fo lookin-glas.
Mary
Mary
si
see
im
3sg
.
poss
bodi
body
fo
for
lookin-glas.
mirror
Mary saw herself in the mirror.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
nd
Language:
Cameroon Pidgin English
by
Anne Schröder
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Datapoints:
Reflexive constructions: Reflexive pronoun with ‘body’ or body-part
Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns: Intensifiers and reflexives are differentiated
Reciprocal constructions: Reciprocal construction identical to reflexive
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