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Example 12-250
I ain't - I ain't exactly know what kind of work he used to do, but I think he used to work over there. But he retire.
I
1sg
.
sbj
ain't
neg
-
I
1sg
.
sbj
ain't
neg
exactly
exactly
know
know
[...].
[...]
I don’t exactly know [what kind of work he used to do] [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
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