Datapoint Sranan/Vocative markers

Wilner (1992: 68) describes we as a “sentence introducer or attention getter.”

Values

Optional vocative marker preceding noun

Example 2-282:
We, yere dya.
We,
hey
yere
hear
dya.
here
Hey, listen here.

Source: Wilner 1992: 68

Example 2-283:
Gilly, kon yere.
Gilly,
Gilly
kon
come
yere.
hear
Gilly, come hear [this].

Source: Winford 2000: 88

Confidence:
Uncertain