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Example 53-218
Aret twa parle kreol, parl meriken!
Aret
stop
twa
2sg
.
refl
parle
speak
kreol,
Creole
parl
speak
meriken!
English
Stop speaking Creole, speak English!
French:
Arrête de parler créole, parle américain!
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Neumann 1985
: 277
Language:
Louisiana Creole
by
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
and
Thomas A. Klingler
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
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