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Example 12-236
If I dead, tell them you don't kill me, tell them I eat poison barracuda.
[...]
[...]
tell
tell[
imp
]
them
3pl
.
obj
you
2sg
.
sbj
don't
neg
kill
kill
me,
me
tell
tell[
imp
]
them
3pl
.
obj
I
1sg
.
sbj
eat
eat[
pfv
]
poison
poison
barracuda.
barracuda
[If I die,] tell them you didn't kill me, tell them I ate poisoned barracuda.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: No complementizer
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
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