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Example 20-98
He hap five piece chiloh, - three piece bull chiloh, and two piece cow chiloh.
He
3sg
hap
has
five
five
piece
clf
chiloh,
child
-
three
three
piece
clf
bull
bull
chiloh,
child
and
and
two
two
piece
clf
cow
cow
chiloh.
child
He has five children: three boys and two girls.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Holman 1834
: 110
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Noun phrase conjunction and comitative: Overlap
Nominal and verbal conjunction: Overlap
Female and male animals: Preposed sex-denoting word
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