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Example 20-159
When he wantshey?
When
when
he
3sg
wantshey?
want
When does he want it?
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Ruschenberger 1838
: II.223
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Interrogative pronouns: Four compound expressions
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