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Example 12-19
Yeah, no, my mother dead long time.
She
dead [...] my younger sister was 'bout five, I been mus'e 'bout 13, my older sister 'bout 16. Long time. When
she
dead -
she
leave eight children.
[...]
[...]
When
when
she
3sg
.
f
dead
die[
pfv
]
-
she
3sg
.
f
leave
leave[
pfv
]
eight
eight
children.
children
[...] When she died she left eight children.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Gender distinctions in personal pronouns: In 3rd person singular only
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