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Example 21-19
Why are you laughing?
Why
why
are
be.
pl
you
2p
laugh-ing?
laugh-
prog
Why are you laughing?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fong 2004
: 91
Language:
Singlish
by
Lisa Lim
and
Umberto Ansaldo
cite
Datapoints:
Position of interrogative phrases in content questions: Interrogative phrase initial
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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