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Re: isolating is equivalent to inflected

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Monday, December 5, 2005, 12:42
Hi!

"David J. Peterson" <dedalvs@...> writes:
>... > So with Melanesian Pidgin English... > > Mi baembae itim ap "food" (don't know the word). > /I future eat "up" food/ > "I'll eat the food." > > Then that preposition became reanalyzed, and transitive verbs > get marked with the "-im" suffix, so it became: > > Mi baembae itimapim "food". > /I future eat-TRANS. food/ > "I'll eat the food." > > And that word "baembae" got shortened simply to "bae", and is > in the process of becoming a verbal prefix.
This lang seems closely related to Tok Pisin. Is it a different lang/dialect? **Henrik

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