Value Relative particle and resumptive pronoun

Language:
Nigerian Pidgin
Parameter:
Subject relative clauses
References
Faraclas 1996: 35-46, 97-98

Examples

  1. dì pìkín we̱ ì dè sìdó̱n fò̱r dyar
    dì
    art.def
    pìkín
    child
    we̱
    rel
    ì
    3sg.sbj.expl
    dè
    ncompl
    sìdó̱n
    sit
    fò̱r
    loc
    dyar
    there
    the child who sits over there
  2. Dì pìkín we̱ ìm dè sìdó̱n fò̱r dyar dè rid.
    Dì
    art.def
    pìkín
    child
    we̱
    rel
    ìm
    3sg.sbj
    dè
    ncompl
    sìdó̱n
    sit
    fò̱r
    loc
    dyar
    there
    dè
    ncompl
    rid.
    read
    The child who is sitting / usually sits there is reading / usually reads.