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Example 42-70
ńgwa femi
bemfeta
ńgwa
one
femi
girl
bemfeta
handsome.
f
a pretty young lady
Comment:
Gender agreement applies to a very small number of adjectives occurring with human nouns.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Own fieldwork 1980-1981, 2009
Language:
Papiá Kristang
by
Alan N. Baxter
cite
Datapoints:
Gender agreement of adnominal adjectives: Only few adjectives agree with the noun
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