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Example 31-55
Ka kuma gosi ki
minizu
sa tudu ben bistidu.
Ka
neg
kuma
like
gosi
now
ki
that
minizu
children
sa
are
tudu
all
ben
well
bistidu.
dressed
It is not like nowadays that children are all well dressed.
Comment:
This example illustrates the irregular plural
minizu
'children', also realized as
mininus
(regular plural marking) in the language.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
by
Marlyse Baptista
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
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