你將
你就
知
来你
支數上過一邊
米皮上埋一邊
Fig. 3. The Accounting example in Chinese
As you can see, this is largely achieved in Pidgin with the verbs "put","get", "pay" and "take", The technical terms "gon-da", an account, and "ba-loen-sı", balance are all that were needed. Indeed, in this context, the term ba-loen-st is unusual, "Di-fa-loen-st" is more commonly used.
Much of the syntactic structure of Pidgin follows that of Cantonese; however, a significant departure from Chinese syntax is the handling of time and place. In the Chinese sentence, the conventional order of words is: time, place, action. In Pidgin, however, English structure is adopted, so that you get sentences like.
mai go si hi dou-ma-la
tomorrow)
(I shall go and see him
tik-gi daat ka-gou but yin-sai gou-dang (take those goods into the godown)
Tong points out in a note that in standard English, there is a distinction between singular and plural noun forms, but that no such distinction exists in Pidgin. Nor was there any distinction in sentence structure between statements and questions. “hi hap go o-lit-dar” could be "He has already gone." or "Has he gone yet?"
此廣部打劑:
培在一字一數
分東媽
十月1日厘亞音傳話
别
正士
世話話如
Fig 4 Tong's explanation of the difference in singular
& plural forms
T
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你將
你就
知
#
来你
支數上過一邊
米皮上埋一邊
Fig. 3. The Accounting example in Chinese
As you can see, this is largely achieved in Pidgin with the verbs "put","get", "pay" and "take", The technical terms "gon-da", an account, and "ba-loen-sı", balance are all that were needed. Indeed, in this context, the term ba-loen-st is unusual, "Di-fa-loen-st" is more commonly used.
Much of the syntactic structure of Pidgin follows that of Cantonese; however, a significant departure from Chinese syntax is the handling of time and place. In the Chinese sentence, the conventional order of words is: time, place, action. In Pidgin, however, English structure is adopted, so that you get sentences like.
mai go si hi dou-ma-la
tomorrow)
(I shall go and see him
tik-gi daat ka-gou but yin-sai gou-dang (take those goods into the godown)
Tong points out in a note that in standard English, there is a distinction between singular and plural noun forms, but that no such distinction exists in Pidgin. Nor was there any distinction in sentence structure between statements and questions. “hi hap go o-lit-dar” could be "He has already gone." or "Has he gone yet?"
此廣部打劑:
培在一字一數
分東媽
十月1日厘亞音傳話
别
正士
世話話如
Fig 4 Tong's explanation of the difference in singular
& plural forms
T
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