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Example 12-259
You know somebody live down the corner?
You
2sg
.
sbj
know
know
somebody
indf
live
live
down
down
the
art
corner?
corner
You know someone who lives on the corner?
Comment:
This is an example from the most acrolectal speaker of my sample, so even in acrolectal Bahamian Creole English, intonation is the only strategy to mark yes-no questions.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Polar questions: Only interrogative intonation
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