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Example 65-149
Ничего не делай его, только работай конторе.
Niʧiwo ni delaj iwo, tol'ko rabotaj kantore.
Niʧiwo
nothing
ni
neg
delaj
do
iwo,
3sg
tol'ko
only
rabotaj
work
kantore.
office
She does not do anything, she only works in the office.
Comment:
The example was recorded by E. Perekhvalskaya and F. Eloeva in 1985 (Primorskij region).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Perekhvalskaya 2008
: 237
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
Negation and indefinite pronouns: Co-occurrence with predicate negation
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