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Example 22-4
Tupela pikinini blongen go kisim lip banana.
Tu-pela
two-
mod
pikinini
child
blong-en
poss
-
3sg
go
go
kisim
get
lip
leaf
banana.
banana
His two children went to fetch banana leaves.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
: WNB F10
Language:
Tok Pisin
by
Geoff P. Smith
and
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
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