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Example 65-146
За женушека месяза посиди нету, адали чужой.
Za ʒenuʃeka mesiaza pasidi netu, adali ʧuʒoj.
Za
top
ʒenuʃeka
wife
mesiaza
place
pasidi
sit
netu,
neg
adali
like
ʧuʒoj.
stranger
They never sit near their wives as if they were strangers.
Comment:
The original source for this example is Cherepanov (1853: 375).
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Neumann 1966
: 246
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Position of standard negation: Immediately after the verb
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