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Example 12-103
Well, the people-them 'round the neighborhood call the ambulance for me. They call the ambulance. And when they
did
call the police, the fellows-them fled, they gone.
And
and
when
when
they
they
did
pst
call
call
the
the
police
police
[...]
[...]
And when they had called the police [...]
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, a few lexical items may intervene
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