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Example 12-184
I only have four home now [...] Only two does be home.
Only
only
two
two
does
hab
be
cop
home.
loc
[I only have four [children] at home now [...]]. Only two are at home.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Shilling 1978
: 72
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
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Datapoints:
Predicative locative phrases: Variable copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Overlap
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