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Example 26-20
sɔ ju ʧip dat pɔʃin af
sɔ
so
ju
2sg
ʧip
chip
dat
dem
pɔʃin
portion
af
off
So you chip that portion off.
Comment:
Ju
is a dependent pronoun [2SG], which looks exactly the same as the independent one (
ju
= 2SG).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 57
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
Person syncretism in independent personal pronouns: No person syncretism
Special dependent person forms for subject and object: No dependent person forms
Marking of patient noun phrases: No marking of patient NPs
Alignment of case marking of full noun phrases: Neutral alignment
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