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Example 12-40
Miss - the boys - them broke down Bay Street.
Miss
Miss
-
the
art
boys
boy.
pl
-
them
pl
broke
break[
pfv
]
down
down
Bay
Bay
Street.
Street
Miss, the men completely destroyed Bay Street.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural word following the noun
The associative plural: Associative plural marker identical to additive plural marker
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