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Example 20-99
Young mandulin man hab see she and want for make buy she.
Young
young
mandulin
mandarin
man
man
hab
pfv
see
see
she
3sg
and
and
want
want
for
for
make
make
buy
buy
she.
3sg
The young mandarin saw her and wanted to buy her.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Tilden 1831-32
: 767
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Nominal and verbal conjunction: Overlap
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