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Example 23-10
I gat tri nyusilan ami oli sik
I
agr
gat
have
tri
three
nyusilan
New.Zealand
ami
army
oli
agr
sik
sick
There were three guys from the New Zealand army who got sick.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Order of cardinal numeral and noun: Numeral precedes noun
Sortal numeral classifiers: The language has no numeral classifiers
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