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Example 12-41
And girl, let me tell you. When you go to the Island - when you go to Island, try carry Off. Because them mosquito, they'll kill you - and them sandfly.
[...]
[...]
them
pl
mosquito,
mosquito[
sbj
]
they'll
3pl
.
sbj
.
fut
kill
kill
you
2sg
.
obj
-
and
and
them
pl
sandfly.
sandfly[
sbj
]
[...] those mosquitoes [...] and those sandflies.
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
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