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Example 9-22
A wan pul wan mame fa tri fi yu.
A
1sg
wan
fut
pul
pull
wan
one
mame
mame
fa
from
tri
tree
fi
for
yu.
you
I will pull a mame (fruit) from the tree for you.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1985
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
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Datapoints:
Position of indefinite article in the noun phrase: Indefinite article is preposed
Special dependent person forms for subject and object: Only dependent subject forms
Indefinite articles: Indefinite article identical to numeral ‘one’
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’: Special motion-from adposition
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