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Negative morpheme types
The negative particle is ka.
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Negative particle
Example 30-209:
Odja, mi N
ka
kre pa bu toka di noti.
Odja,
look
mi
1sg
.
indp
N=ka=kre
1sg
.
dep
=
neg
=want
pa=bu=toka
for=
2sg
=play
di=noti.
of=night
Listen, I don’t like you to play at night.
Source:
da Silva 1987
: 134
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
Feature:
Negative morpheme types
Source:
Baptista 2002
: 116-119
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