Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 64-76
hayá melía
hayá
life.
f
melí-a
full-
f
a full life
Comment:
This an instance of Arabic interference (hypercorrection). The masculine/feminine forms in Arabic are
malia:n/malia:n-a
'full'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Manfredi 2005
: 210
Language:
Juba Arabic
by
Stefano Manfredi
and
Sara Petrollino
cite
Datapoints:
Gender agreement of adnominal adjectives: Only few adjectives agree with the noun
×