Datapoint Nicaraguan Creole English/The associative plural

Values

Associative plural marker identical to additive plural marker

Example 11-51:
miz byuula-dem
miz
Miss
byuula-dem
Beulah-pl
Miss Beulah and her friends (or family)

Source: Holm 1978: 278

Example 11-52:
mai piknini dem
mai
1sg.poss
piknini
child
dem
pl
my children

Source: nd

Example 11-53:
Mary dem
Mary
Mary
dem
pl
Mary and her family/folks/friends
Example 11-54:
Aktuali di Heman dem iin di seem spat we dei begin so moch iaz ago.
Aktuali
actually
di
art.def
Heman
Heman
dem
pl
iin
in
di
art.def
seem
same
spat
spot
we
rel.loc
dei
3pl
begin
begin
so
so
moch
much
ia-z
year-pl
ago.
ago
At present, the Heman family finds itself in the very place from which they set out so many years ago.

Source: nd

Confidence:
Very certain