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Example 65-5
книжка хóчи делай эта люди.
Kniʃka xoʧi d'elaj eta liudi.
Kniʃka
book
xoʧi
want
d'elaj
make
eta
this
liudi.
person
These people wish to compose a book.
Comment:
Liudi
here refers to two people (us, the linguists). The example was recorded by E. Perekhvalskaya and V. Belikov in 1991 (Khabarovskij region).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Perekhvalskaya 2008
: 265
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Object-verb-subject (OVS)
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human nouns
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural is not expressed overtly
Definite articles: Neither definite nor indefinite article
Distance contrasts in demonstratives: No distance contrast
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