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Example 65-2
Kитайса давали меня ихинь.
Kitaisa davali minia ixiɲ.
Kitaisa
Chinese
dava-li
give-
pfv
minia
1sg
ixiɲ.
3pl
They gave me to a Chinese.
Comment:
OVS and OiVOdS word order occur only with a pronominal Subject. The example was recorded by E. Perekhvalskaya and F. Eloeva in 1885 (Primorskij region).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Perekhvalskaya 2008
: 237
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Object-verb-subject (OVS)
Person syncretism in independent personal pronouns: No person syncretism
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