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