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Example 23-48
ol haos oli fasfas tumas
ol
pl
haos
house
oli
agr
fasfas
fast
tumas
very
The houses are crowded together.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff 2003
: 235
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Invariant plural marking
Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun: Overlap
Functions of reduplication: Only iconic functions
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