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Example 21-98
Cos I lazy, I don’t want to draw the curtain.
Cos
because
I
1sg
lazy,
lazy
I
1sg
don’t
do.
neg
want
want
to
to
draw
draw
the
det
curtain.
curtain
Because I am lazy, I don’t want to draw the curtain.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fong 2004
: 83
Language:
Singlish
by
Lisa Lim
and
Umberto Ansaldo
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative adjectives: Variable copula
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