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Example 23-39
yu
no
save shopping blong ol man wetem blong yu
yu
2sg
no
neg
save
can
shopping
shopping
blong
poss
ol
pl
man
man
wetem
with
blong
poss
yu
2sg
You can't do everyone else's shopping and yours.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Politeness distinctions in second-person pronouns: Binary pronominal politeness distinction
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
Noun phrase conjunction and comitative: Identity
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
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