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Example 12-254
Say ain't nobody who'll call theyself is fisherman can't swim.
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[...]
ain't
neg
nobody
indf
who'll
who.
fut
call
call
theyself
refl
is
cop
fisherman
fisherman
can't
mod
.
aux
.
neg
swim.
swim
There isn’t anyone who would call himself a fisherman and be unable to swim.
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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