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Example 50-175
Sé madanm-la i ka maré paké kann-la ka chanté.
Sé
def
.
pl
madanm-la
woman-
def
i
res
ka
prog
maré
tie
paké
package
kann-la
surgar.cane-
def
ka
prog
chanté.
sing
The women who are tying the sugar cane packages are singing.
French:
Les femmes qui lient les paquets de canne chantent.
Comment:
The resumptive pronoun
i
can be used for all persons. For further discussion, see Ludwig (1996: 305ff).
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Ludwig 1996
: 305
Language:
Guadeloupean Creole
by
Serge Colot
and
Ralph Ludwig
cite
Datapoints:
Subject relative clauses: Zero and resumptive pronoun
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