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Example 65-44
Теперь ибэнка исё зенщинэ исё карасивы.
Tiper' ibəŋka isio zenʃinə isio kərasivə.
Tiper'
now
ibəŋka
Japanese
isio
pl
zenʃinə
woman
isio
pl
kərasivə.
beautiful
Japanese women are beautiful.
tiper' probably means 'generally, usually' here.
Comment:
The example was recorded by E. Perekhvalskaya and V. Belikov in 1991 (Khabarovskij region).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Perekhvalskaya 2008
: 270
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human nouns
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural is not expressed overtly
Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun: Differentiation
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