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Example 20-49
Bum bye you kum my housy second teem.
Bum
later
bye
later
you
2sg
kum
come
my
my
housy
house
second
second
teem.
time
Come to my house again another time.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE2 corpus (Baker 2003b). It shows the word
second
in use. However, the meaning is 'another time' as in Cantonese
daih yih chi
.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Ball 1855
: 118
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
Going to named places: No adpositional/case marking
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