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Occurrence of nominal plural markers
Plural marker for both human and inanimate nouns would be -s.
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Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
Example 21-27:
Like ten thousand of my friend already applied and went for interview.
Like
like
ten
ten
thousand
thousand
of
of
my
1sg
.
poss
friend
friend
already
already
appli-ed
apply-
pst
and
and
went
go.
pst
for
for
interview.
interview
For example, ten thousand of my friends have already applied [for jobs] and gone for interviews.
Source:
Wee and Ansaldo 2004
: 64
Example 21-28:
Then they teach you all the technique lah.
Then
then
they
3pl
teach
teach
you
2sg
all
all
the
det
technique
technique.
pl
lah.
pcl
Then they teach you all the techniques.
Source:
Wee and Ansaldo 2004
: 64
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Singlish
by
Lisa Lim
and
Umberto Ansaldo
cite
Language:
Singlish
Feature:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers
Source:
Wee and Ansaldo 2004
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