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Example 7-51
Nowe na oopn?
No-we
no-where
na
neg
oopn?
open
Is nowhere open?
Comment:
We
could be interpreted both as interrogative ‘where’ or non interrogative ‘way’.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Prescod 2004
: 113
Language:
Vincentian Creole
by
Paula Prescod
cite
Datapoints:
Indefinite pronouns: Old generic-noun-based indefinites continuing somebody/something
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