Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 20-152
[...] that blue all same before time; litty that led colour [...]
[...]
[...]
that
dem
blue
blue
all
all
same
same
before
before
time;
time
litty
little
that
dem
led
red
colour
colour
[...]
[...]
[...] the blue one like (I used) before; the one with a little red colour [...].
Comment:
This example is from the CPE2 corpus (Baker 2003b). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Anonymous 1860
: 160
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
'Green' and 'blue': Differentiation
×