Datapoint Early Sranan/Order of relative clause and noun

Value 5, Adjoined relative clause, concerns cases where the antecedent is in subject position and the relative clause appears to the right of the predicate, e.g. a copula.

Values

Relative clause follows noun Frequency: 70.0%

Example 1-26:
Bikasi allasanni, dissi buku takki va mi, sa komm so.
Bikasi
because
ala-sani,
all-thing
disi
rel
buku
book
taki
say
fu
of
mi,
1sg
sa
fut
kom
come
so.
so
Because everything that the Book says about me will happen like that.

Source: Schumann 1781: 253

Example 1-27:
Den zomma disi brokke da koffi na zabatim den no moese myki zoo menni balibali lange da zinge.
Den
det.pl
soma
people
disi
rel
broko
break
da
det.sg
kofi
coffee
na
at
sabaten
evening
den
3pl
no
neg
musu
must
meki
make
so-meni
so-much
babari
shouting
nanga
with
da
det.sg
singi.
singing
The people that will peel coffee beans tonight (they) mustn’t make so much noise with their singing.
Dutch: Die daar 's Avonds de Koffi uit de Schil doen die moeten zoo veel geraas niet maaken, met haar Zingen. [op.cit.]

Source: van Dyk ca. 1765: 68

Confidence:
Very certain

Adjoined relative clause Frequency: 30.0%

Example 1-28:
Wan uman ben de dapeh, dissi habi wan jeje vo siki sinsi tin na aiti jari.
Wan
art.indf.sg
uma
woman
ben
pst
de
cop
dape,
there
disi
rel
habi
have
wan
art.indf.sg
yeye
spirit
fu
of
siki
illness
sensi
since
tin
ten
na
at
aiti
eight
yari.
year
There was a woman there, who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years.

Source: Schumann 1781: 176

Example 1-29:
Soema dée diesie dee aksie na joe.
Soma
person
de
be.there
disi
rel
de
asp
aksi
ask
na
for
yu.
2sg
There are people who are asking for you.
Dutch: Daar zyn luiden die naar u vraagen. [op.cit.]

Source: Weygandt 1798: 92

Confidence:
Certain