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Example 26-22
haʊ æl go ji tiŋ hi gɛt ʧans?
haʊ
how
æl
Al
go
Gore
ji
2sg
tiŋ
think
hi
3sg
gɛt
poss
ʧans?
chance
How about Al Gore, you think he has a chance?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 58
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
Interrogative pronouns: All simple words
Predicative possession: Transitive
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Identity
Complements of 'think' and 'want': No complementizer
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