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Example 47-206
Ningun
di nan
no
a laga
nada
lòs tokante nan plan.
Ningun
no.one
di
of
nan
3pl
no
neg
a
pfv
laga
let
nada
nothing
lòs
loose
tokante
about
nan
3pl
plan.
plan
Not one of them has revealed anything about their plan.
Comment:
The translation is mine. Note that
laga lòs
is calqued on a Dutch verb-particle construction.
Type:
published source
Source:
nd
: 20 June 2009, p.7
Language:
Papiamentu
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
Negation and indefinite pronouns: Co-occurrence with predicate negation
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