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Example 12-248
So - when he came back off the boat, right, no - his wife - his wife - his wife didn't want no one pick the fig - the - the fig off the tree.
[...]
[...]
his
3sg
.
poss
wife
wife
didn't
neg
.
pst
want
want
no
no
one
one
pick
pick
the
art
fig
fig[
pl
]
[...].
[...]
[...] his wife didn’t want anyone to pick the figs [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Complements of 'think' and 'want': No complementizer
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