Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online

Value Relative particle and gap

Language:

African American English

Parameter:

Subject relative clauses

Examples

1. That's the man that fixed the biycle.

   That's

   that's

   the

   the

   man

   man

   that

   that

   fixed

   fixed

   the

   the

   biycle.

   bicycle

   That's the man that fixed the biycle.

   See Martin and Wolfram 1998