Contact phenomena/code copying in Indian Ocean Creoles: the post-abolition period

Créoles et français : Quelques différences dans la valence verbale1

“…The loss of the French preposition de caused complex restructuring for the expression of ablative movement with intransitive verbs (simple PATH constructions). Since the second half of the 19 th century, the replacement of de by depi (< 'depuis') in ablative contexts has been observed (see Kriegel 2012).…”