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Example 8-8
Wi fain di moni we Jan laas.
Wi
1pl
fain
find
di
det
moni
money
we
rel
Jan
John
laas.
lose
We found the money that John lost.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Order of relative clause and noun: Relative clause follows noun
Object relative clauses: Relative particle and gap
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