Value Cleft with copula before focus

Language:
Trinidad English Creole
Parameter:
Focusing of the noun phrase
References
Solomon 1993: 76-77

Examples

  1. Is John to buy papers today.
    Is
    foc
    John
    John
    to
    to
    buy
    buy
    papers
    papers
    today.
    today
    It’s John who is supposed to buy the papers today.

    See Solomon 1993: 77

  2. All the hunt he does hunt ne never catch nothing.
    All
    all
    the
    det
    hunt
    hunt
    he
    3sg.m
    does
    hab
    hunt
    hunt
    ne
    3sg.m
    never
    never
    catch
    catch
    nothing.
    nothing
    However much he hunts, he has never caught anything.

    See Solomon 1993: 77