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Example 20-167
Because you no have give money, pay sampan.
Because
because
you
2sg
no
neg
have
pfv
give
give
money,
money
pay
pay
sampan.
sampan
Because you did not pay for the sampan
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Ruschenberger 1838
: 288
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Same TAM marking in negated clauses
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