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Example 31-70
E kel mizeria.
E
is
kel
that
mizeria.
poverty
It is that poverty.
Comment:
One cannot say *
e kel kel mizeria
[it.is the that poverty], as there is a ban on adjaceny of the definite and the demonstrative.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
by
Marlyse Baptista
cite
Datapoints:
Co-occurrence of demonstrative and definite article: Demonstrative identical to definite article
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