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Example 54-200
Le soir [...] i rakont zistoir, zisteman zistoir
k
ou zamé antand.
Lë
def
swar
evening
[...]
[...]
i
fin
rakont
tell
zistwar,
story
zisteman
exactly
zistwar
story
k
rel
ou
2sg
zame
never
antann.
hear
In the evening [...] they tell stories, just the stories you never hear.
French:
Le soir [...] on raconte des histoires, justement des histoires qu'on n'entend jamais.
Comment:
The informant describes the traditional
veye d mor
(wake over corpse).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Cellier 1982
: 46
Language:
Reunion Creole
by
Annegret Bollée
cite
Datapoints:
Object relative clauses: Relative particle and gap
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