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Value Demonstrative word precedes noun
Language:
Vincentian Creole
Parameter:
Order of demonstrative and noun
References
Prescod 2004
: 176
Examples
dis bok
dis
dem
bok
book
this/that book
dem tu man
dem
dem
tu
two
man
man
these/those two men
See
Prescod 2004
: 176
I ha dis man bin a wuhk lan fo J.
I
3sg
ha
have
dis
dem
man
man
bin
pst
a
prog
wuhk
work
lan
land
fo
for
J.
J.
There was a man who used to work the land for J.
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