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Example 1-20
Da boote de go na diesi netti.
Da
det
.
sg
boto
boat
de
ingr
go
go
na
on
disi
this
neti.
night
The boat is going this night.
Dutch:
De Boot gaat van deeze Nagt. [op.cit.]
Comment:
When
disi
'this, these' precedes the noun, there is no article (note that
na
is a preposition; in 18th-century Sranan, the article is always
da
, not
na
as in later stages of the language).
Type:
written
Source:
van Dyk ca. 1765
: 91
Language:
Early Sranan
by
Margot C. van den Berg
and
Adrienne Bruyn
cite
Datapoints:
Order of demonstrative and noun: Demonstrative word precedes noun
Co-occurrence of demonstrative and definite article: No co-occurrence
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