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Example 22-198
Tupla kamap wanpla
dok man
na wanpla
dok meri
.
Tupla
3du
kamap
become
wan-pla
one-
mod
dok
dog
man
man
na
and
wan-pla
one-
mod
dok
dog
meri.
woman
The two turned into a male and a female dog.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
: Manus F14
Language:
Tok Pisin
by
Geoff P. Smith
and
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
Female and male animals: Postposed sex-denoting word
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