Value Affix

Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
Parameter:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb
References
Lang 1993: 152-158

Examples

  1. [...], e lenbra di kusa ki=sáibu flába-el, e pazigua.
    [...],
    [...]
    e=lenbra
    3sg=remember
    di=kusa
    of=thing
    ki=sáibu
    comp=wise.man
    flá-ba=el
    say-ant=3sg
    e=pazigua.
    3sg=calm.down
    [...] she remembered what the witch doctor had told her and calmed down.
    German: [...] sie erinnerte sich an das, was ihr der Medizinmann gesagt hatte und beruhigte sich.

    See da Silva 1987: 34