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Example 12-134
I start eating, so - I tell her,
Don't
eat none, you know. Yeah. She was pregnant.
[...]
[...]
I
1sg
.
sbj
tell
tell
her,
3sg
.
obj
Don't
neg
eat
eat[
imp
]
none
none
[...].
[...]
[I started to eat (the fish), so] I told her, Don’t eat any of it [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
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