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Example 20-149
This one very fine thing for you, to have make well my
arm
this fashion.
This
dem
one
one
very
very
fine
fine
thing
thing
for
for
you,
2sg
to
to
have
pfv
make
make
well
well
my
1sg
.
poss
arm
arm
this
this
fashion.
way
This thing is good for you, (it) has healed my arm.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Ruschenberger 1838
: 288
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
'Hand' and 'arm': Overlap
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