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Re: Creole vs. Pidgin

From:Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
Date:Sunday, July 25, 1999, 15:12
In case anybody is interested, I was just surfing the web and found=20
a composition in Cavite=F1o Chavacano at:

http://www.jetlink.net/~rogers/monang.html

Before anyone realizes this, I want to be the first to say that I=20
have misremember a few things about chavacano. I mixed a couple of=20
particles together. What I remembered as the perfective is actually=20
an oblique marker _na_. The perfective is expressed by _ya_ (not=20
_na_ as I earlier thought), e.g., _Ya come yo_ 'I ate (already)'.

There are probably other things I misremembered. Oh well, the point=20
was that there are creoles with VSO word order.

-kristian- 8)