Datapoint Mauritian Creole/‘Take’ serial verb constructions
Although Bickerton, following a visit to Mauritius in the 1980s and working with friends of Baker as informants, claims SVCs exist in Mauritian, this betrays a lack of sensitivity to intonational patterns in the language. A sequence such as /li ti praṅ kuto kup lavyan/ is possible, BUT it would consist of TWO sentence contours and therefore not qualify as an SVC by Bickerton's own definition.
The VP conjunctor /e/ could be inserted in the above - /li ti praṅ kuto e li kup lavyan/ and in Sibylle Kriegel's example - /li praṅ trwa-kat bobin e li rule/.
Values 
No ‘take’ serials
- Confidence:
- Very certain