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Example 53-180
Compair Lapin avé compair Bouki te tou lé dé oùlé mayé.
Compair
Brother
Lapin
Rabbit
avé
with
compair
brother
Bouki
Bouki
te
pst
tou
all
lé
def
.
art
dé
two
oùlé
want
mayé.
marry
Brother Rabbit and Brother Bouki both wanted to get married.
French:
Compère Lapin et Compère Bouki voulaient tous deux se marier.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Neumann 1985
: 344
Language:
Louisiana Creole
by
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
and
Thomas A. Klingler
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, a few lexical items may intervene
Noun phrase conjunction and comitative: Identity
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