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Example 65-21
Хэцзю либа купила, эта либа помилай нету [...] эта либа убижала.
Xeʧʒu liba kupila, eta liba pomilaj netu [...] eta liba ubiʒala.
Xeʧʒu
Xeczu
liba
fish
kupi-la,
buy-
pfv
eta
this
liba
fish
pomilaj
die
netu
neg
[...]
[...]
eta
this
liba
fish
ubiʒala.
run.away.
pfv
Xeczu bought a fish, the fish was alive [...] the fish swam away.
Comment:
This is an extract from a folk tale. The example is taken from the archives of A. Shprintsyn.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Perekhvalskaya 2008
: 221
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Position of definite article in the noun phrase: The language has no definite article
Definite articles: Neither definite nor indefinite article
Negative morpheme types: Negative auxiliary verb
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