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Example 21-125
She made a police report, the fella kena charge.
She
3sg
made
make.
pst
a
det
police
police
report,
report
the
det
fella
fellow
kena
suffer
charge.
charge
She made a police report, the fellow was charged.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fong 2004
: 99
Language:
Singlish
by
Lisa Lim
and
Umberto Ansaldo
cite
Datapoints:
Passive constructions: Typical passive construction
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