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Example 20-144
My tinkee so, that number one pleeseeman hab got
too.
My
1sg
tinkee
think
so,
so
that
dem
number
number
one
one
pleeseeman
policeman
hab
has
got
got
too.
too
I think that top policeman has one too.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE2 corpus (Baker 2003b). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
1867-68
: 190
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Focus particle ‘also’: Non-adjacent following
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