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Example 8-31
Di pikni-dem laas di piepa.
Di
det
pikni-dem
child-
pl
laas
lose
di
det
piepa.
paper
The children lost the paper.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
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