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Example 23-63
mi luk olsem bubu ia i kakae fulap tumas
mi
1sg
luk
look
olsem
comp
bubu
grandparent
ia
def
i
agr
kakae
eat
fulap
full.up
tumas
very
It seems to me that/like this grandmother eats too much.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Co-occurrence of demonstrative and definite article: No definite article exists
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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