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Example 34-120
Joŋ
i
piskador. — Joŋ
sá
piskador.
Joŋ
John
ø
pfv
i
cop
piskador.
fisherman
—
Joŋ
John
ø
pfv
sá
cop
piskador.
fisherman
John is a fisherman. — John is now (has turned into) a fisherman.
Comment:
This is an example of a predicative noun phrase.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Casamancese Creole
by
Noël Bernard Biagui
and
Nicolas Quint
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative noun phrases: Invariant copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Overlap
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