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Example 6-77

John is a police.

John

John

is

cop

a

det

police.

policeman

John is a policeman.

Type:: constructed by linguist
Source:: Solomon 1993: 91

Language:

Trinidad English Creole by Susanne Mühleisen

Datapoints:

Predicative noun phrases: Invariant copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Differentiation

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