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Example 7-247
*Nobadi si nobadi.
*No-badi
neg
-body
si
see
no-badi.
neg
-body
NOT: Nobody saw anybody.
Comment:
Sentential negation is required to make the utterance grammatical.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Prescod 2013+
: 12
Language:
Vincentian Creole
by
Paula Prescod
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and indefinite pronouns: Preclusion possible with preverbal indefinites
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