Value Cleft with copula after focus

Language:
Belizean Creole
Parameter:
Focusing of the noun phrase
References
Escure 1983

Examples

  1. Habat da me di kapn.
    Habat
    Herbert
    da
    foc
    me
    ant
    di
    the
    kapn.
    captain
    Herbert was the captain. OR: It was Herbert who was the captain.

    See Escure 1993: 237