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Example 55-184
Non, mo
pa
konn ou.
Non,
no
mo
1sg
pa
neg
konn
know
ou.
2sg
No, I don't know you.
French:
Non, je ne vous connais pas.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kriegel et al. 2005
Language:
Mauritian Creole
by
Philip Baker
and
Sibylle Kriegel
cite
Datapoints:
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
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