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Example 20-117
Hoppo truly too much angry English come him house.
Hoppo
Hoppo
truly
truly
too
too
much
much
angry
angry
English
English
come
come
him
3sg
.
poss
house.
house
Hoppo was very angry about the English coming to his house.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Lindsay 1840
: 290
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Motion-to and motion-from: Identity and differentiation
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