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Example 20-162
What side he come from?
What
what
side
side
he
3sg
come
come
from?
from
Where did he come from?
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Dier 1860
: 301
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Interrogative pronouns: Four compound expressions
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