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Example 54-40
Alor, zot dé Maryann, i rantr dan le pti panyé.
Alor,
then
zot
3pl
de
two
Maryann,
Marianne
i
fin
rant
enter
dan
in
lë
def
pti
little
panye.
basket
So then he and Marianne stepped into the little basket.
French:
Alors lui et Marianne rentrent dans le petit panier.
Comment:
This is the only authentic example I found in my entire corpus.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Barat et al. 1977
: 34
Language:
Reunion Creole
by
Annegret Bollée
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Pronoun conjunction: Inclusory pronoun plus numeral plus subset NP
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