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Example 9-88
Dis badl a me wan a di bigɛs badl.
Dis
this
badl
bottle
a
top
me
ant
wan
one
a
of
di
the
bigɛs
biggest
badl.
bottle
This bottle was one of the biggest (we ever found).
Comment:
The anterior marker precedes the lexical item.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1993
: 235
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Indefinite articles: Indefinite article identical to numeral ‘one’
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