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Example 53-40
vyè moun-an
vyè
old
moun-an
person-
art
.
def
.
sg
the adult
Comment:
Note the morphophonological variant of the definite article
an
, which sometimes occurs after a noun ending in a nasal consonant, like
moun
in this example.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Klingler 2003
: 173
Language:
Louisiana Creole
by
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
and
Thomas A. Klingler
cite
Datapoints:
Position of definite article in the noun phrase: Definite article is postposed
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