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Example 54-93
lë
vyey
fanm
lë
art
.
def
vyey
old
fanm
woman
the old woman
French:
la vieille femme
Comment:
The definite article is not gender-marked, whereas the adjective is.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Barat et al. 1977
: 78
Language:
Reunion Creole
by
Annegret Bollée
cite
Datapoints:
Gender agreement of adnominal adjectives: No adjective agrees with the noun
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