Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 6-111
Is John to buy papers today.
Is
foc
John
John
to
to
buy
buy
papers
papers
today.
today
It’s John who is supposed to buy the papers today.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Solomon 1993
: 77
Language:
Trinidad English Creole
by
Susanne Mühleisen
cite
Datapoints:
Focusing of the noun phrase: Cleft with copula before focus
×