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Example 18-7
Pikin dem di pley futbol fo stad.
Pikin
child
dem
pl
di
ipfv
pley
play
futbol
football
fo
for
stad.
stadium
The children are playing football at the stadium.
Type:
published source
Source:
Ayafor 2008
: 444
Language:
Cameroon Pidgin English
by
Anne Schröder
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural word following the noun
Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun: Identity
Pequenino: A word derived from pequenino exists
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