Datapoint Reunion Creole/Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun

Language change in progress: In traditional Reunion Creole, there was full differentiation (Value 3) of 3rd person pronoun zot 'they’ and the plural word bann. In modern Reunion Creole, there is a tendency to replace the ambiguous zot by bannla 'they’. See Feature 23 "Expression of nominal plural meaning".

Values

Differentiation

Example 54-51:
bann marmay
bann
pl
marmay
child
children
French: les enfants

Source: Carayol et al. 1984-1995: 391

Example 54-53:
Tout lé mous i rant [...] zot i rant, zot i sor pu.
Tout
all
le
def.pl
mous
bee
i
fin
rant
enter
[...]
[...]
zot
3pl
i
fin
rant,
enter
zot
3pl
i
fin
sor
go.out
pu.
neg.more
All the bees enter [...] they enter, they do not go out any more.
French: Toutes les abeilles entrent [...] elles entrent, elles ne sortent plus.

Source: Cellier 1982: 55

Confidence:
Very certain