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Example 67-167
Olang Singapore tapi datang Chinese.
Olang
people
Singapore
Singapore
tapi
but
datang
come
Chinese.
China
[I am] Singaporean but come from China.
Comment:
As the subject does not know English well, he used
Chinese
instead of
China
. But from the context in which I collected the data, it is quite clear that he referred to
China
.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Aye 2005
: 337
Language:
Singapore Bazaar Malay
by
Khin Khin Aye
cite
Datapoints:
Coming from named places: No adpositional/case marking
Motion-to and motion-from: Overlap
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