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Example 20-125
He too much sorry inside, and have killum he-self.
He
3sg
too
too
much
much
sorry
sorry
inside,
inside
and
and
have
pfv
killum
kill
he-self.
3sg
-
refl
He felt very sorry and killed himself.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Anonymous 1840
: 36
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
Reflexive constructions: Compound reflexive pronoun with emphasizer
Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns: Intensifiers and reflexives are identical
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