Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 30-214
Algen mal lobádu,
ningen ka
ta kre da-l náda, [...].
Algen
someone
mal
badly
lobá-du,
thank-
pass
ningen
nobody
ka=ta=kre
neg
=
ipfv
=want
da=l
give=
3sg
náda,
nothing
[...].
[...]
To an ungrateful person, nobody wants to give anything, [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Brüser et al. 2002
: s.v. loba
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and indefinite pronouns: Co-occurrence with predicate negation
×