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Example 20-169
She hab belly content for make see you.
She
3sg
hab
pfv
belly
very
content
happy
for
for
make
make
see
see
you.
2sg
She was very happy to see you.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Tilden 1831-32
: 773
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, a few lexical items may intervene
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