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Example 20-165
how fashion you wanchee bindee?
how
how
fashion
fashion
you
2sg
wanchee
want
bindee?
bind
How do you want it to be bound?
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Anonymous 1836
: 433
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Interrogative pronouns: Four compound expressions
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