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Example 20-109
Mississy have got?
Mississy
Miss
have
have
got?
got
Is Mrs X at home?
Comment:
This example is from the CPE2 corpus (Baker 2003b). The translation is provided in the corpus.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Darwent n.d [1905]
: iii
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative locative phrases: Invariant copula
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