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Example 5-1
kooknot bring ail
kooknot
coconut
bring
bring.forth
ail
oil
Coconuts produce oil. OR: The coconut produces oil.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 131 (line 247)
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
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