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Example 23-74
smol boe ia i karem bigfala grin baket ia
smol
small
boe
boy
ia
def
i
agr
karem
carry
bigfala
big
grin
green
baket
bucket
ia
def
That small boy was carrying the big green bucket.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Gender agreement of adnominal adjectives: No adjective agrees with the noun
Alignment of case marking of full noun phrases: Neutral alignment
'Green' and 'blue': Differentiation
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