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Example 20-116
甘舌尼西
Come Sydney side.
Come
come
Sydney
Sydney
side.
side
(She) came from Sydney.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Tong 1862
: VI.32
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Postpositions
Coming from named places: No adpositional/case marking
Motion-to and motion-from: Identity and differentiation
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