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Example 20-13
Me thinkey you one very good man, one man
what
know justice and law.
Me
1sg
thinkey
think
you
2sg
one
art
.
indf
very
very
good
good
man,
man
one
art
.
indf
man
man
what
what
know
know
justice
justice
and
and
law.
law
I think you are a good man, one who knows justice and the law.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours. Note the use of
what
as relative pronoun as in some British dialects.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Ruschenberger 1838
: 289
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Order of relative clause and noun: Relative clause follows noun
Subject relative clauses: Relative particle and gap
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