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Example 20-56
Mi sanpan more bettah, captin!
Mi
1sg
.
poss
sanpan
sampan
more
more
bettah,
better
captin!
captain
Captain, my sampan is better (than the others)!
Comment:
This example is from the CPE2 corpus (Baker 2003b). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Lindley 1869-1875
: 80
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Comparative standard marking: Standard is not overtly marked
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