--Beatrice Owusua Nyampong 13:55, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Agreement
Reference is not the same as Agreement
This needs to be sorted out.
--Dorothee Beermann 12:19, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
In Krio, there is referential agreement in PERSON. This is seen in the example below.
Example:
I si anoda dog we fiba am, ehn i bak ohl bon na im moht.
“He sees another dog which resembles him and he too held a bone in his mouth.”
In this example, the third person pronoun 'I' (he) refers to the dog mentioned earlier in the text. The third person object pronoun 'am' (him) refers back to 'I' (he) which refers to the dog. Again in the second clause, the third person possessive pronoun 'i' (his) refers to the pronoun 'i' (he) which refers to the other dog. - both the subject pronoun and the possessive pronoun have the same form.
Clause Linkage
The complex clause below is a case of parataxis.
What would be in two clauses? --Dorothee Beermann 12:25, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Example:
I ron go insai di forehst, gladi wit di bon I de chamcham.
“He run into the forest, happy with the bone he was chewing.”
| insai |
| insai |
| insideLOC |
| PREP |
| chamcham |
| cham | cham |
| chew | REDP |
| V |
The second clause is not embedded in the first clause (which is also the main clause). Therefore, both clauses are coordinated without evidence of explicit linkage. The first clause is an independent clause, but the second clause is uncertain since it does not begin with a subject, however, it has a subject and it carries tense.