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Example 20-126
Myself
wonshi looksee!
Myself
1sg
.
refl
wonshi
want
looksee!
look.see
I want to see it for myself!
Comment:
This sentence was uttered by a German. This example is from the CPE2 corpus (Baker 2003b). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Zabel 1906
: 221
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns: Intensifiers and reflexives are identical
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