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Example 20-160
Boy, Mississi say you just now please go office-side talkee Master what time he wantchee chow-chow.
Boy,
Boy
Mississi
Miss
say
say
you
you
just
just
now
now
please
please
go
go
office-side
office-side
talkee
talk
Master
Master
what
what
time
time
he
he
wantchee
want
chow~chow.
food~food
Boy, the lady asks you to please go to the office now and ask the gentleman what time he would like to eat
Comment:
This example is from the CPE2 corpus (Baker 2003b). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Green 1934
: 331
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Interrogative pronouns: Four compound expressions
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