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Example 18-39
So troki i wuman put ol haf haf botul-dem an ston fo autsayd.
So
so
troki
turtle
i
3sg
.
poss
wuman
wife
put
put
ol
all
haf~haf
half~half
botul-dem
bottle-
pl
an
and
ston
stone
fo
for
autsaid.
outside
So the wife of the turtle put all broken bottles and stones outside (lit. So the wife of the turtle put all pieces of bottles and stones outside).
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Bellama et al. 1983
: 85
Language:
Cameroon Pidgin English
by
Anne Schröder
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Functions of reduplication: Word-class-changing function
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