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Example 71-125
George Bell Jr.
a me
Kawai hele malalo.
George
George
Bell
Bell
Jr.
Jr.
a
and
me
with
Kawai
Kawai
hele
go
malalo.
down
George Bell Jr. and Kawai went down.
Comment:
The space between
a me
is a spelling convention where a morpheme boundary is shown by a space, but where the two elements correspond to a single English word. So
a me
is literally "and with", but it is the basic coordinator for noun phrases ("and").
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
own data 1899
Language:
Pidgin Hawaiian
by
Sarah J. Roberts
cite
Datapoints:
Noun phrase conjunction and comitative: Overlap
Nominal and verbal conjunction: Differentiation
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