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Focusing of the noun phrase
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Cleft with copula before focus
Example 6-111:
Is John to buy papers today.
Is
foc
John
John
to
to
buy
buy
papers
papers
today.
today
It’s John who is supposed to buy the papers today.
Source:
Solomon 1993
: 77
Example 6-112:
All the hunt he does hunt ne never catch nothing.
All
all
the
det
hunt
hunt
he
3sg
.
m
does
hab
hunt
hunt
ne
3sg
.
m
never
never
catch
catch
nothing.
nothing
However much he hunts, he has never caught anything.
Source:
Solomon 1993
: 77
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Trinidad English Creole
by
Susanne Mühleisen
cite
Language:
Trinidad English Creole
Feature:
Focusing of the noun phrase
Source:
Solomon 1993
: 76-77
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