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Example 20-118
Have hear any news come from that Melica si?
Have
pfv
hear
hear
any
any
news
news
come
come
from
from
that
dem
Melica
America
si?
side
Have you heard any news from America?
Comment:
This example is from the CPE2 corpus (Baker 2003b). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Coffin 1869
: 310
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Coming from named places: Preposition
Motion-to and motion-from: Identity and differentiation
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Same TAM marking in negated clauses
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