Datapoint Tayo/Focusing of the noun phrase

This construction might be influenced by a decreolized environment. I am not sure whether it is typical of core creole.

Values

Fronting with particle before focus

Example 57-9:
se te Tuo le pla:te
se
presv
te
pl
Tuo
Touho
le
si
pla:te
plant
It is the Touho people that planted them.

Source: Ehrhart 1993: 154

Example 57-163:
ta kone istwar pu pjer?
ta
2sg
kone
know
istwar
story
pu
prep
pjer?
Pierre
Do you know Pierre's story?

Source: Ehrhart 1993: 195

Confidence:
Very certain