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Example 49-281
Li peye m kòb li te dwe m lan.
Li
3sg
peye
pay
m
1sg
kòb
money
li
3sg
te
ant
dwe
owe
m
1sg
lan.
def
He/She gave me the money that he/she owed me.
French:
Il/Elle m'a donné l'argent qu'il/elle me devait.
Comment:
The determiner DEF always shows an allomorph according to the immediate context (assimilation). Here it is
lan
after a nasal consonant.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Valdman et al. 1996
: xxvi
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Object relative clauses: Zero and gap
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