Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 54-70
Le boug la i di: [...].
Lë
def
boug
man
la
dem
i
fin
di:
say
[...].
[...]
This man says: [...].
Comment:
Staudacher (2004: 59) describes this construction as "déictique" and translates
lë zwazo-la
'l’oiseau en question’.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Barat et al. 1977
: 59
Language:
Reunion Creole
by
Annegret Bollée
cite
Datapoints:
Co-occurrence of demonstrative and definite article: Co-occurrence
×