Value Overlap

Language:
Trinidad English Creole
Parameter:
'Body hair' and 'feather'
References
Winer 2009: 339

Examples

  1. (1) Shi kot shi hair. (2) di parrot feaders (3) Me son gettin big, he gettin feathers.
    (1)
    (1)
    Shi
    3sg.f
    kot
    cut
    shi
    3sg.f.poss
    hair.
    hair
    (2)
    (2)
    di
    det
    parrot
    parrot
    feaders
    feather.pl
    (3)
    (3)
    Me
    1sg.poss
    son
    son
    gettin
    get.prog
    big,
    big
    he
    3sg.m
    gettin
    get.prog
    feathers.
    feather.pl
    (1) She cut her hair. (2) the parrot's feathers (3) My son is getting big, he is growing a first moustache (feathers here: fine body hair).

    See Winer 2009: 339