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Example 13-134
You red devil! You’s a red devil!
You
2sg
.
sbj
red
red
devil!
devil
You’s
2sg
.
sbj
.
cop
a
a
red
red
devil!
devil
You are a red devil! You are a red devil!
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Turner [1949] 2002
: 260
Language:
Gullah
by
Thomas B. Klein
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative noun phrases: Variable copula
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