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Example 65-49
Waʃa igraj-igraj ni nada.
Váša
2pl
igráj-igráj
play-play
ni
neg
náda.
must
Do not mock [me] / laugh [at me].
Comment:
2PL is used as a polite form.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Jabłońska 1957
: 168
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Functions of reduplication: Attenuating function
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and special negator
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