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Example 20-46
買稔巴輝申鏬士爺米記咩厘
My
number five
son last year makee marry.
My
1sg
.
poss
number
number
five
five
son
son
last
last
year
year
makee
make
marry.
marry
My fifth son married last year.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Tong 1862
: VI.82
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: All ordinal numerals are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals, but ‘first’ may also be suppletive
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