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Example 11-292
di nief
we
Ai kot di miit wid
di
art
.
def
nief
knife
we
rel
Ai
1sg
kot
cut
di
art
.
def
miit
meat
wid
ins
the knife I cut the meat with
Comment:
In written Nicaraguan Creole English (just as in written San Andrés Creole English), the first person singular pronoun is spelled with a capital letter, a practice adopted from Standard English.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Nicaragua project questionnaire
Language:
Nicaraguan Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
cite
Datapoints:
Instrument relative clauses: Relative particle and gap with preposition stranding
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