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Example 55-127
Pyer pe bwar
e
Mari pe okip so zaṅfaṅ
Pyer
Peter
pe
prog
bwar
drink
e
and
Mari
Maria
pe
prog
okip
look.after
so
3sg
.
poss
zaṅfaṅ
child
Peter is drinking and Maria is looking after her child(ren).
Comment:
/e/ could be replaced by /ek/ here or neither could occur (juxtaposition).
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Mauritian Creole
by
Philip Baker
and
Sibylle Kriegel
cite
Datapoints:
Nominal and verbal conjunction: Overlap
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