Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 53-227
Vyen pa dekouraje boug-sa-ye.
Vyen
come
pa
neg
dekouraje
discourage
boug
guy
saye.
det
.
dem
.
pl
Don't come and discourage these guys.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Klingler 2003
: 314
Language:
Louisiana Creole
by
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
and
Thomas A. Klingler
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
×