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Example 21-10
So your grandfather had three wives something like that ah?
So
so
your
2sg
.
poss
grandfather
grandfather
had
have.
pst
three
three
wives
wives
something
something
like
like
that
that
ah?
pcl
So your grandfather had three wives or something like that?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Wee and Ansaldo 2004
: 68
Language:
Singlish
by
Lisa Lim
and
Umberto Ansaldo
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Order of cardinal numeral and noun: Numeral precedes noun
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