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Example 20-12
[...] to make speak to dat old fool head lun away long she.
[...]
[...]
to
to
make
make
speak
speak
to
to
dat
dem
old
old
fool
fool
head
head
lun
run
away
away
long
com
she.
she
[...] to speak to that foolish old man (who) ran away with her.
Comment:
This rare example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Tilden 1831-32
: 767
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Gender distinctions in personal pronouns: In 3rd person singular only
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