Value Prepositions

Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
Parameter:
Order of adposition and noun phrase
References
Baptista 2002: 135-137 ; Lang 2012

Examples

  1. [...] e átxa un kabésa riba-l pédra: [...].
    [...]
    [...]
    e=átxa
    3sg=find
    un=kabésa
    a=head
    riba=l
    on.top=of
    pédra:
    stone
    [...].
    [...]
    [...] he found a head on a stone: [...].
    German: [...] er fand einen Kopf auf einem Stein: [...].

    See da Silva 1987: 27