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Value ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Ordinal numerals
Examples
My daughter is thirty-four. – [... She's the oldest?] – No, that's the second.
[...]
[...]
that's
dem
.
3sg
.
cop
the
art
second.
num
[...] that's my second (daughter).
Yeah, because the Lord - to Ecclesiast - 'clesiastes, the third chapter - which verse - three and four [...].
[...]
[...]
the
art
third
num
chapter
chapter
-
which
which
verse
verse
-
three
num
and
and
four
num
[...].
[...]
[...] the third chapter - which verse - three and four [...].
That's the first time I saw a plane - like that.
That's
that.
cop
.
3sg
.
pst
the
art
first
num
time
time
Ø
that
I
1sg
.
sbj
saw
see.
pfv
a
art
plane
plane
[...]
[...]
That was the first time that I saw a plane [...]
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