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Example 20-170
Who my? My, Shoe Lane, Number One, Hoby! No saavez my?
Who
who
my?
1sg
My,
1sg
Shoe
Shoe
Lane,
Lane
Number
number
One,
one
Hoby!
Hoby
No
neg
saavez
remember
my?
1sg
Who am I? Me, Hoby, from Number one Shoe Lane. Don't you remember me?
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Downing 1838
: I.284
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Special dependent person forms for subject and object: No dependent person forms
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