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Example 3-27
di wɔmi; dɛɛ wɔmi
di
def
.
sg
wɔmi;
man
dɛɛ
def
.
pl
wɔmi
man
the man; the men
Comment:
Plural marking is on determiners.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork data
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural word preceding the noun
Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun: No nominal plural word
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