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Example 56-141
Mal i lour.
Mal
male
i
pm
lour.
heavy
The male one is heavy.
French:
Le mâle est lourd. (Bollée & Rosalie 1994: 107)
Comment:
The predicate marker
i
does not count as a copula because it is also obligatory in verbal clauses (
David i vini
‘David comes’).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Bollée and Rosalie 1994
: 106
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative adjectives: No copula
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