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from Part V
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
The following passage narrates the suffering of the people of Haiti subject to the appalling earthquake of January 2010. The brief narrative points to both the physical and moral torment of the victims and the frantic activities of doctors, nurses and the entire rescue operation. Highlighted are the numerous uses of the definite article related to the human body as opposed to the possessive adjectives that would appear in English.
The name Haïti does not begin with an aspirate h, witness l’île d’Haïti in the first paragraph. However, there is some uncertainty over this (see Marie-Éva de Villers’s MULTI dictionnaire). Doubtless the Haitians themselves have the last word as seen in the notice: “Police Nationale d’Haïti.”
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