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Example 12-253
See, the government over the Bahamas then didn't know nothing, you know?
[...]
[...]
the
the
government
government
over
over
the
the
Bahamas
Bahamas
then
then
didn't
neg
know
know
nothing
indf
[...].
[...]
[...] the Bahamian government (back) then, they didn’t know anything [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and indefinite pronouns: Co-occurrence with predicate negation
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