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Value Cleft with copula before focus
Language:
Creolese
Parameter:
Focusing of the noun phrase
References
Rickford 1987
: 147, line 351
Examples
a
da
a
wa mi se
a
foc
da
that
a
eq
.
cop
wa
what
mi
1sg
se
say
It is that that I said. OR: That is what I said.
See
Rickford 1987
: 147, line 351
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