Value Before the verb

Language:
Reunion Creole
Parameter:
Position of standard negation
References
Bollée 2007: 132

Examples

  1. Li la pa rantré.
    Li
    3sg
    la
    prf
    pa
    neg
    rantre.
    come.back
    He has not come back home. OR: He is not yet at home.
    French: Il n'est pas rentré.

    See Barat et al. 1977: 76

  2. Le mun i va pa vòl en ti zafer kòm sa.
    Lë
    def
    moun
    person
    i
    fin
    va
    fut
    pa
    neg
    vol
    steal
    en
    indf
    ti
    small
    zafer
    thing
    kom
    like
    sa.
    that
    Nobody will steal a small item like that.
    French: Personne ne volera une petite chose comme ça.

    See Chaudenson 1974: 344