Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 4-166
A be wani (fu) leli a koni fu a bakaa.
A
he
be
pst
wani
want
(fu)
(for)
leli
learn
a
det
.
sg
koni
clever
fu
poss
a
det
.
sg
bakaa.
outsider
He wanted to learn the wisdom of the white people.
Comment:
Note that
fu
is optional after
wani
.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Huttar and Huttar 1994
: 513
Language:
Nengee
by
Bettina Migge
cite
Datapoints:
Complements of 'think' and 'want': Different complementizer
×