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Example 12-192
[Turtle, is there much turtle now?] – No, don’t have turtle round.
[...]
[...]
don’t
neg
have
have.
exist
turtle
turtle
round.
around
[Are there many turtles here now?] – No, there aren’t any turtles here.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Shilling 1978
: 145
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Overlap
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