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Example 10-78
Ihn da di
tord
porson we kom an aks disya kweshon.
Ihn
3sg
da
foc
di
art
.
def
tord
third
porson
person
we
rel
kom
come
an
and
aks
ask
dis-ya
dem
-
emph
kweshon.
question
He is the third person who comes and asks this very question.
Comment:
The translation as indicated in Bartens (2003: 64) does not include the word
very
.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Bartens 2003
: 64
Language:
San Andres Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
Ordinal numerals: Other solutions
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