Datapoint Seychelles Creole/Subject relative clauses

After verbs of perception in the main clause, the progressive particle pe can introduce a kind of relative clause with the object of the main clause functioning as the "semantic" subject of the relative clause:
Mon vwar Lea pe danse. (constructed by linguist)
[1SG see Lea PROG dance]
'I see Lea dancing.' OR: 'I see Lea who dances.'

Values

Relative particle and gap

Example 56-169:
Be sa bann dimoun ki ti Lil Terez, zot ti reste laba menm osi?
Be
but
sa
dem
bann
pl
dimoun
people
ki
rel
ti
pst
Lil
Lil
Terez,
Terez
zot
3pl
ti
pst
reste
stay
laba
there
menm
foc
osi?
too
But the people who stayed at Lil Terez (the island of Therese), they also lived there?
French: Ben, les gens qui étaient à l'île Thérèse, ils habitaient là aussi? (Bollée & Rosalie 1994: 139)

Source: Bollée and Rosalie 1994: 138

Confidence:
Very certain