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Example 20-8
希麽必打忒其都卑時沽厘郎希
He more better takee two piecee coolie long he.
He
3sg
more
more
better
better
takee
take
two
two
piecee
clf
coolie
coolie
long
com
he.
3sg
He better take two coolies with him.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Tong 1862
: VI.55
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human nouns
Sortal numeral classifiers: The language has numeral classifiers
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