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Example 15-101

ʤɔn na man

ʤɔn

John

na

cop

man

man

John is a man.

Type:: naturalistic written
Source:: Fyle and Jones 1980

Language:

Krio by Malcolm Awadajin Finney

Datapoints:

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

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