Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 16-32
wì gɛt sɔm wumã we dè dè kuk
wì
1pl
gɛt
get
sɔm
indf
wumã
woman
we
comp
dè
3pl
dè
hab
kuk
cook
There were women who cooked (for us).
Comment:
The animate noun (
woman
) is not marked for plurality.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Huber 1999
: 204
Language:
Ghanaian Pidgin English
by
Magnus Huber
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
Alignment of case marking of personal pronouns: Accusative alignment
×