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Example 12-256
Yeah, ain't nobody is bother me. Because they done know me, and I is be in the house all the time
[...]
[...]
ain't
neg
nobody
indf
is
hab
bother
bother
me.
me
[...] there isn’t anyone who bothers me (around here). [Because they know me, and I’m always in the house.]
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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