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Example 26-68
gɹams azɹ ɔm tɛl um a no stɛ
gɹams
grandmother
azɹ
answer
ɔm
3sg
tɛl
tell
um
3pl
a
1sg
no
neg
stɛ
loc
Grandma, answer it, tell them I'm not here!
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 93
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
Predicative locative phrases: Invariant copula
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