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Example 39-11
Dew rəkri dew, dəpəy dew kader, fugãw vɛy.
De-w
give-
pst
rəkri
food.stall
de-w,
give-
pst
dəpəy
then
de-w
give-
pst
kader,
chair
fugãw
stove
vɛy.
old
[He] gave [me] the food stall, and also chairs, an old stove.
Comment:
This sentence contains one of the few recorded examples of a postposed attributive adjective, contradicting the canonical position of adjective and noun in Diu Indo-Portuguese.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Cardoso 2009
: 166
Language:
Diu Indo-Portuguese
by
Hugo C. Cardoso
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adjective and noun: Modifying adjective follows noun
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