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Example 23-111
sapos i ova long taem blong kakae, hed i mas soa
sapos
if
i
agr
ova
over
long
loc
taem
time
blong
poss
kakae,
eat
hed
head
i
agr
mas
must
soa
sore
If it's past lunch time, he'll get a headache.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Experiencer constructions with ‘headache’: Body-part is subject
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