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Example 32-5
un grand amig
un
det
grand
big
amig
friend
a good friend
Portuguese:
um grande amigo
Comment:
The position of adjective with human nouns affects its semantics:
un amig grand
'a friend who is a big person'.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Swolkien de Sousa 2012
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente
by
Dominika Swolkien
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adjective and noun: Modifying adjective precedes noun
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