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Example 12-275
He getting little feathers.
He
3sg
.
m
.
sbj
getting
get.
prog
little
little
feathers.
feather.
pl
He’s getting facial and body hair (i.e. he’s entering puberty).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Holm and Shilling 1982
: 74
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
'Body hair' and 'feather': Overlap
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