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Example 20-164
Who you talkee so fashion?
Who
who
you
2sg
talkee
talk
so
so
fashion?
fashion
Who do you think you are to talk in this manner?
Comment:
This example is from the CPE2 corpus (Baker 2003b). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
1867-68
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Interrogative pronouns: Four compound expressions
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