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Example 22-102
Yu no ken mauswara, poro.
Yu
2sg
no
neg
ken
perm
mauswara,
talk.nonsense
poro.
mate
Don't talk nonsense, mate.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Verhaar 1995
: 326
Language:
Tok Pisin
by
Geoff P. Smith
and
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and special negator
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