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Example 20-153
Den young mandulin man make send he sarmant boy for see she sarmant girl.
Den
then
young
young
mandulin
mandarin
man
man
make
make
send
send
he
3sg
.
poss
sarmant
servant
boy
boy
for
for
see
see
she
3sg
.
poss
sarmant
servant
girl.
girl
Then the young mandarin sent his male servant to see her female servant.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Tilden 1831-32
: 767
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Female and male animals: Postposed sex-denoting word
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