Datapoint Batavia Creole (Tugu)/Indefinite pronouns

In the Tugu corpus, there is no positive indefinite, in contrast to the Batavia corpus, where there are examples of positive indefinites, but not of negated ones; see the record for Batavia ('my default lect') under "More lects".

Values

Interrogative-based indefinites

Example 43-29:
Yo nunte doy, nunte ki ki.
Yo
1sg
nunte
neg.have
doy,
money
nunte
neg.have
ki
what
ki.
what
I don’t have any money, I don’t have anything.

Source: Philippe 2011: 34

Confidence:
Very certain