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Example 20-53
This b'long my.
This
dem
b'long
cop
my.
1sg
.
poss
This is mine.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE2 corpus (Baker 2003b). The translation is provided in the corpus.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Darwent n.d [1905]
: iii
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Independent pronominal possessors: Identical to dependent pronominal possessor
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