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Example 23-122
Maj! o yu longfala yet!
Maj!
march
o
excl
yu
2sg
longfala
long
yet!
yet
March! Oh you're here for a long time yet.
Comment:
These kinds of verbless predicate constructions when predicating something of an NP are by far the most common in my corpora.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative noun phrases: Variable copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Differentiation
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