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Example 70-42
Ham-log
nai
kao pio tin roj kalas.
Ham-log
1-
pl
nai
neg
kao
eat
pio
drink
tin
three
roj
day
kalas.
finish
We didn't eat or drink for three days.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Siegel-field recording
Language:
Pidgin Hindustani
by
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
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