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Example 31-172
E se madrinha ki skapa-l.
E
cop
se
his
madrinha
godmother
ki
who
skapa-l.
save-him
It's his god-mother who saved him.
Comment:
The morpheme
e
in Cape Verdean Creole is ambiguous between a copula and a pronoun. To gloss it as a copula may not be accurate but this annotation is used here for convenience.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
by
Marlyse Baptista
cite
Datapoints:
Focusing of the noun phrase: Cleft with copula before focus
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