Difference between revisions of "Krio pronomina"

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In the following we present the Krio pronomina system as reflected by our Krio corpus. You can access the corpus from the TypeCraft Portal of Language In the list of Krio texts you find texts owned by Beatrice Owusua Nyampong and by the TypeCraft project. The latter corpus is a further development of the Nyampong corpus. You can access the individual corpora by following the link to the Nyampong or TypeCraft user page.

The distribution of nouns and pronouns

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Pronouns, Possessive pronouns and Reflexive pronouns

Pronouns
	PN	PNposs	PNrefl
1SG	a, mi	mi	misɛf*
2SG	yu	yu	yusɛf
3SG	i, am	im, in	insɛf
1PL	wi	wi
2PL	unu, una	unu, una
3pl	dem	dem, dɛn

Demonstrative pronouns
PNdem
the	di
that	dat
this	dis
those, they

Relative pronouns
PNrel
who, whom, which	we
what	wetin

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-{| class="wikitable"  width: 70%;"
+{| class="wikitable"  style="background-color:#ffffcc" cellpadding="50"
-! colspan="4" style="color: black; text-align:center;" cellpadding=''10'' | Pronouns
+! colspan="4" | Pronouns
 |-
 | || '''PN''' || '''PNposs''' || '''PNrefl'''
 |-
-|1SG || a, mi || mi ||
+|1SG || a, mi || mi || style="font-style: italic; color: green;" | misɛf*
 |-
 |2SG || yu || yu || yusɛf
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-{| class="wikitable"  width: 70%;"
+{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="50"
-! colspan="5" style="color: black; text-align:center;" cellpadding=''10'' | Demonstrative and relative pronouns
+|+Demonstrative pronouns
 |-
-! colspan=''2'' | Pndem|| || || colspan=''2'' | PNrel ||
+! colspan=''2''|PNdem
 |-
-|the || ''di'' || || who, whom, which || ''we''
+|the || ''di''
 |-
-|that || ''dat'' || || what || ''wetin''
+|that || ''dat''
 |-
-|this || ''dis'' || || ||
+|this || ''dis''
 |-
-|those, they || ''dɛn'' || || ||
+|those, they
 |}
+{| class="wikitable"  cellpadding="50" style="margin: auto;"
+|+Relative pronouns
-{| class="wikitable" ;  style="background-color:#ffffcc" cellpadding="50"
-|+ '''Possessive pronouns'''
-! scope="col" ; style="background-color:#ccccff"| Person/Number
-! scope="col"; style="background-color:#ccccff"| Form
-|-
-|1SG
-| mi
-|-
-|2SG.
-|yu
-|-
-|3SG
-|in(im)
 |-
-|1PL
+! colspan=''2''|PNrel
-| ?
 |-
-|2PL
+|who, whom, which || ''we''
-|una
 |-
-|3PL
+|what || ''wetin''
-|dɛn
 |}