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Example 2-282
We, yere dya.
We,
hey
yere
hear
dya.
here
Hey, listen here.
Comment:
Wilner (1992: 68) describes
we
as a “sentence introducer or attention getter”.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Wilner 1992
: 68
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Vocative markers: Optional vocative marker preceding noun
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