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Example 23-159
twenti tausen flat gud, no winim eni vatu
twenti
twenty
tausen
thousand
flat
flat
gud,
good
no
neg
winim
win
eni
any
vatu
vatu
Twenty thousand gone completely, he didn't win a single penny.
Comment:
The vatu is the currency of Vanuatu.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and indefinite pronouns: Co-occurrence with predicate negation
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