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Example 21-27
Like ten thousand of my friend already applied and went for interview.
Like
like
ten
ten
thousand
thousand
of
of
my
1sg
.
poss
friend
friend
already
already
appli-ed
apply-
pst
and
and
went
go.
pst
for
for
interview.
interview
For example, ten thousand of my friends have already applied [for jobs] and gone for interviews.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Wee and Ansaldo 2004
: 64
Language:
Singlish
by
Lisa Lim
and
Umberto Ansaldo
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
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