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Example 12-228
I never had the chance - there ain't no shark around -
that
want bite.
[...]
[...]
there
there
ain't
neg
no
neg
shark
shark[
pl
]
around
around
-
that
rel
want
want
bite.
bite
[...] there weren't any sharks around that would have wanted to bite.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Reduced TAM marking in negated clauses
Subject relative clauses: Relative particle and gap
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