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Example 12-116
I
didn't
grow up like that [...] I
wasn't
grow up like that, my parents
never
grow us up like that, ain't none of us in gang violent.
I
1sg
.
sbj
didn't
neg
.
pst
grow
grow
up
up
like
like
that
that
[...]
[...]
I
1sg
.
sbj
wasn't
neg
.
pst
grow
grow
up
up
like
like
that,
that
my
my
parents
parents
never
neg
grow
grow
us
us
up
up
like
like
that
that
[...].
[...]
I didn't grow up like that [...] my parents didn't bring us up like that [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Reduced TAM marking in negated clauses
Negative morpheme types: Negative auxiliary verb
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