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Example 5-121
az dem se ool aig a livn piipl
az
as
dem
3pl
se
say
ool
old
aig
higues
a
cop
livn
living
piipl
people
since they say Old Higues are living people
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 146, line 344
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative noun phrases: Variable copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Differentiation
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