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Example 20-23
Suppose
he
no small feet, no man wantjee make
he
number one wife.
Suppose
suppose
he
3sg
no
no
small
small
feet,
feet
no
no
man
man
wantjee
want
make
make
he
3sg
number
number
one
one
wife.
wife
If she doesn't have small feet, nobody will want to make her his principal wife.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE2 corpus (Baker 2003b). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Davidson 1846
: 272
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Gender distinctions in personal pronouns: In 3rd person singular only
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