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Example 12-100
I gotta learn how to drive, cause with my age, people should - people - w-
shoulda done
learn how to drive long time.
[...]
[...]
people
people
[...]
[...]
shoulda
mod
.
aux
done
compl
learn
learn
[...].
[...]
[I’ll have to learn how to drive, because at my age,] one should have already learned [how to drive a long time ago].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Internal order of tense, aspect, and mood markers: The feature does not apply
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