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Example 23-49
olgeta
UMP oli no laekem hem
olgeta
3pl
UMP
UMP
oli
agr
no
neg
laekem
like
hem
3sg
The UMP (people) didn't like him.
Comment:
The UMP is the Union of Moderate Parties.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural word preceding the noun
Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun: Overlap
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