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Example 21-96
He quite poor thing also lɔ33.
He
3sg
quite
quite
poor
poor
thing
thing
also
also
lɔ33.
pcl
He is quite a poor thing as well [obviousness, resignedly].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fong 2004
: 83
Language:
Singlish
by
Lisa Lim
and
Umberto Ansaldo
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative noun phrases: Variable copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Identity
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