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Example 12-175
Da- no, he's a Trinidadian. Yeah, he's a teacher. He's a tea- uh-huh. And he still teaches at the College of the Bahamas [...].
[...]
[...]
he's
3sg
.
sbj
.
3sg
.
cop
a
art
Trinidadian
Trinidadian
[...]
[...]
he's
3sg
.
sbj
.
3sg
.
cop
a
art
teacher.
teacher
[Daddy] is a Trinidadian [...] he’s a teacher.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative noun phrases: Variable copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Overlap
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