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Example 31-56
Trabadjadoris
, gosi sta karu pa bu po pa trabadja.
Trabadjadoris,
worker.
pl
gosi
now
sta
asp
karu
expensive
pa
for
bu
you
po
put
pa
to
trabadja.
work
Workers are now expensive for you to put to work.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
2000
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
by
Marlyse Baptista
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural suffix
Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun: No nominal plural word
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