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Example 70-9
Jon taim u-lon maro, u roj barawala pati.
Jon
rel
taim
time
u-lon
3-
pl
maro,
kill
u
that
roj
day
barawala
big
pati.
party
The time that they killed (a pig), that day there was a big party.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Siegel-field recording
Language:
Pidgin Hindustani
by
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adjective and noun: Modifying adjective precedes noun
Order of relative clause and noun: Correlative relative clause
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