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Example 7-52
enihou yo waa tu teik it
eni-hou
any-how
yo
2.
sbj
waa
want
tu
to
teik
take
it
3sg
no matter how you look at it OR: however you look at it
Comment:
This indefinite is based on the interrogative use of ‘how’. Note the similarity with ‘anyhow’, although 'however' would be the required translation here.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Prescod 2004
: 116
Language:
Vincentian Creole
by
Paula Prescod
cite
Datapoints:
Indefinite pronouns: Old generic-noun-based indefinites continuing somebody/something
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