Example 12-122

The bird white - chickcharney, yeah. And, you know, they get face - sometime you look after 'im, he face look like owl. Sometime - you look again - he face look like dog. Sometime when you look again - he face look like cat. Yeah! They ain't no ordinary bird. You know, they's bird what - uh - uh - I believe it in myself - they does - they be work witch or something like that.
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they
they
get
get[stat.gener]
face
face
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he
3sg.poss
face
face
look
look[stat.gener]
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[The bird is white - the chickcharney (mythical creature), yeah. And, you know,] they have a face - [sometimes] [...], its face looks [like that of an owl. Sometimes, when you look again, its face looks like that of a dog].
Comment:
These are unmarked generic verb situations.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews