Value Associative plural marker identical to additive plural marker

Language:
Nicaraguan Creole English
Parameter:
The associative plural

Examples

  1. miz byuula-dem
    miz
    Miss
    byuula-dem
    Beulah-pl
    Miss Beulah and her friends (or family)

    See Holm 1978: 278

  2. mai piknini dem
    mai
    1sg.poss
    piknini
    child
    dem
    pl
    my children

    See nd

  3. Mary dem
    Mary
    Mary
    dem
    pl
    Mary and her family/folks/friends
  4. Aktuali di Heman dem iin di seem spat we dei begin so moch iaz ago.
    Aktuali
    actually
    di
    art.def
    Heman
    Heman
    dem
    pl
    iin
    in
    di
    art.def
    seem
    same
    spat
    spot
    we
    rel.loc
    dei
    3pl
    begin
    begin
    so
    so
    moch
    much
    ia-z
    year-pl
    ago.
    ago
    At present, the Heman family finds itself in the very place from which they set out so many years ago.

    See nd