Value A

Language:

Manx English

Parameter:

Use of definite article where StE favours zero

Examples

1. The nither of us was there

   neither

   See Moore et al. 1991: 126

2. I've only the one chile

   child
3. I hadn' been there I couldn' tell ye the when

   I could not tell you how long it was since I had been there

   See Brown 1936: 147

4. past Ballaugh, and Kirk Michael, and the Ballacraine

   See Brown 1936: 147

5. The all he got for his pain

   trouble

   See Moore et al. 1991: 186