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Value Before the verb
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
Parameter:
Position of standard negation
References
Baptista 2002
: 116-119
Examples
Odja, mi N
ka
kre pa bu toka di noti.
Odja,
look
mi
1sg
.
indp
N=ka=kre
1sg
.
dep
=
neg
=want
pa=bu=toka
for=
2sg
=play
di=noti.
of=night
Listen, I don’t like you to play at night.
See
da Silva 1987
: 134
Kusa bunitu sima kel inda N
ka
odja na mundu!
Kusa
thing
bunitu
nice
sima
as
kel
dem
.
sg
inda
up.to.now
N=ka=odja
1sg
=
neg
=see
na=mundu!
in=world
I've never seen such a nice thing in the world!
German:
So etwas Schönes habe ich noch nie auf der Welt gesehen.
See
da Silva 1987
: 312
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