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Example 12-31
And then my sister holler out say,
You
see what I tell
you-all
, I tell
you-all
something was go happen through here.
And
and
then
then
my
1sg
.
poss
sister
sister
holler
cry[
pfv
]
out
out
say,
comp
You
2pl
.
sbj
see
see
what
what
I
1sg
.
sbj
tell
tell.
pfv
you-all,
2pl
.
obj
I
1sg
.
sbj
tell
tell[
pfv
]
you-all
2pl
.
obj
something
something
was
cop
.
pst
go
fut
happen
happen
through
through
here.
here
And then my sister cried out, You see what I told you! I told you something was going to happen here.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Politeness distinctions in second-person pronouns: Binary pronominal politeness distinction
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