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Example 20-93
㕭砵都乜治別地烟西利士雞品
You
put
too muchee paddy inside thisee capon.
You
2sg
put
put
too
too
muchee
much
paddy
paddy
inside
inside
thisee
dem
capon.
capon
You have stuck this capon full with paddy.
Comment:
Here
put
is apparently being used as a paraphrase, avoiding use of an instrumental preposition.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Tong 1862
: VI.28
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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