Datapoint Seychelles Creole/Predicative noun phrases

The Seychelles Creole predicate marker”i (as in David i etidyan [David pm student] ‘David is a student’) is not a copula, because it is also obligatory in verbal clauses (David i vini ‘David comes’).

Values

No copula

Example 56-139:
[...] letan ki ou papa ti reziser.
[...]
[...]
letan
time
ki
that
ou
poss.2sg
papa
father
ti
pst
reziser.
manager.of.an.estate
[...] the time when your father was a manager of an estate.

Source: Bollée and Rosalie 1994

Example 56-140:
Sa garson mon ti vwar dan bazar i neve mon madanm.
Sa
the
garson
boy
[Ø
[Ø
mon
1sg
ti
pst
vwar
see
dan
in
bazar]
market]
i
3sg
neve
nephew
mon
1sg.poss
madanm.
wife
The boy whom I saw in the market is the nephew of my wife.
Confidence:
Very certain