Value Cleft with copula before focus

Language:
Nigerian Pidgin
Parameter:
Focusing of the noun phrase
References
Faraclas 1996: 46-51, 115-124

Examples

  1. Ì bì mà fada (shà) we̱ byud dì haws.
    Ì
    3sg.sbj.expl
    bì
    cop
    mà
    1s.poss
    fada
    father
    (shà)
    (pcl)
    we̱
    rel
    byud
    build
    dì
    art.def
    haws.
    house
    It is my father who built the house.