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Example 23-98
nakatoa i tok flas lelebet
nakatoa
hermit.crab
i
agr
tok
talk
flas
flash
lelebet
little.bit
The hermit crab talks himself up a bit.
Comment:
Nakatoa (the hermit crab) is a trickster character in a number of Vanuatu stories.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Alignment of case marking of full noun phrases: Neutral alignment
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