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Value ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
Language:
San Andres Creole English
Parameter:
Ordinal numerals
References
Bartens 2003
: 64
Examples
Ihn da di
tord
porson we kom an aks disya kweshon.
Ihn
3sg
da
foc
di
art
.
def
tord
third
porson
person
we
rel
kom
come
an
and
aks
ask
dis-ya
dem
-
emph
kweshon.
question
He is the third person who comes and asks this very question.
See
Bartens 2003
: 64
di kyandidiet nomba sebn
di
art
.
def
kyandidiet
candidate
nomba
number
sebn
seven
the seventh candidate
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