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Example 20-168
Ship got womans?
Ship
ship
got
got
womans?
woman.
pl
Are there women on the ship?
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Beechey 1831
: 150
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human nouns
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural suffix
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