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Example 20-48
He no like number 1.
He
3sg
no
neg
like
like
number
number
1.
one
He didn't like the first one (his first wife).
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). It is indicated in the corpus that
number 1
refers to 'his first wife'.
Number one
can also mean 'top quality'.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Loines 1953
: 121
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: All ordinal numerals are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
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