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Example 49-85
Fanm ayisyèn nan
chèlbè.
Fanm
woman
ayisyèn
Haitian
nan
def
chèlbè.
pretty
Haitian women are pretty.
French:
La femme haïtienne est coquette.
Comment:
Joseph (1988: 164) writes that "the process that consists of particularizing a generic utterance with the help of
la
seems very general".
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Joseph 1988
: 164
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Generic noun phrases in subject function: Singular noun phrase with definite article
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