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Example 18-16
Wan boi an wan gel di plei fo rut.
Wan
indf
.
art
boi
boy
an
and
wan
indf
.
art
gel
girl
di
ipfv
plei
play
fo
for
rut.
road
A boy and a girl are playing in the street.
Comment:
This is sentence 195 in Dahl's (1985) TAM questionnaire.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Schröder nd
Language:
Cameroon Pidgin English
by
Anne Schröder
cite
Datapoints:
Position of indefinite article in the noun phrase: Indefinite article is preposed
Indefinite articles: Indefinite article identical to numeral ‘one’
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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