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Example 8-55
Dem tek wan-wan buod bil i ous.
Dem
3pl
tek
take
wan-wan
one-one
buod
board
bil
build
i
det
ous.
house
They built the house one (piece of) board at a time.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Adnominal distributive numerals: Distributivity marked by reduplication
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