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Example 20-50
[...] and all good mans must so fashion do ebely
number 7
moon.
[...]
[...]
and
and
all
all
good
good
mans
man
must
must
so
so
fashion
fashion
do
do
ebely
every
number
number
7
seven
moon.
moon
[...] and everyone must do it in the seventh month of each year.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Tilden 1833-34
: 834
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural suffix
Ordinal numerals: All ordinal numerals are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
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