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Example 53-135
la sègon lannen chiko, la trwazyèm lannen chiko
la
art
.
def
sègon
second
lannen
year
chiko,
sugar.cane.stubble
la
art
.
def
trwazyèm
third
lannen
year
chiko
sugar.cane.stubble
second year sugar cane stubble, third year sugar cane stubble
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Klingler 2003
: 205
Language:
Louisiana Creole
by
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
and
Thomas A. Klingler
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
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