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Example 71-100
Elua lumi liilii umi Iapana moemoe maloko.
Elua
two
lumi
room
liilii
little
umi
ten
Iapana
Japanese
moemoe
sleep
maloko.
inside
Ten Japanese were sleeping inside two little rooms.
Comment:
This is an example of an intransitive that is not a neuter verb, with an agentive subject.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Own data 1892
Language:
Pidgin Hawaiian
by
Sarah J. Roberts
cite
Datapoints:
Alignment of case marking of full noun phrases: Accusative alignment
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