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Example 48-12
É un kusa muy impottante.
É
be
un
art
.
indf
.
sg
kusa
thing
muy
very
impottante.
important
It is a very important thing/matter.
Spanish:
Es una cosa muy importante.
Comment:
Degree words like
muy
'very',
poco
'little' etc. always precede the adjective. However, the word
rimá
(probably derived from Portuguese
emais
or archaic Spanish
demás
) always follows the adjective. See Example 13.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Schwegler and Green 2007
: 292,note 20
Language:
Palenquero
by
Armin Schwegler
cite
Datapoints:
Order of degree word and adjective: Degree word precedes adjective
Indefinite articles: Indefinite article identical to numeral ‘one’
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Overlap
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