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Example 22-12
Planti taim mi bin stap long ples.
Planti
many
taim
time
mi
1sg
bin
pst
stap
stay
long
at
ples.
village
I often stayed in the village.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
: Vunak11\JosephB\enb\m20\islan
Language:
Tok Pisin
by
Geoff P. Smith
and
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Order of frequency adverb, verb, and object: Adverb – verb – object
Special dependent person forms for subject and object: No dependent person forms
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