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Example 2-191
A boi fu dya bakasey no drape moro?
A
the
boi
boy
fu
from
dya
here
bakasey
behind
no
no
drape
there
moro?
more
The guy in the back is not there anymore?
Comment:
The copula is sometimes absent before
drape/dape
‘there’.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Winford data, Tape 8-a
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative locative phrases: Invariant copula
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