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Example 20-119
She now no can go to Whampoa as before time.
She
3sg
now
now
no
neg
can
can
go
go
to
to
Whampoa
Whampoa
as
as
before
before
time.
time
Now she cannot go to Whampoa as before.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Tilden 1834-46
: 917
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Motion-to and motion-from: Identity and differentiation
Going to named places: Preposition
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