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Example 22-55
Lek bilongen pen.
Lek
leg
bilong-en
poss
-
3sg
pen.
pain
His leg hurt.
Comment:
Speaker: a boy from Eastern Highland Province, aged about 9
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
: Boy aged around 9 from Eastern Highlands
Language:
Tok Pisin
by
Geoff P. Smith
and
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
Antidual of paired body-part terms: No antidual
Experiencer constructions with ‘headache’: Body-part is subject
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