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Example 20-110
希阿分士塔唏
He often stop here.
He
3sg
often
often
stop
cop
here.
here
He is often here.
Comment:
Note that the pidgin sentence using
stop
is given as an equivalent of the Standard English 'He is often here'.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Tong 1862
: IV.50
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative locative phrases: Invariant copula
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