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Example 12-45
B’Booky
them
having hard times.
B’Booky
B'Booky
them
ass
hav-ing
have-
prog
hard
hard
time-s.
time-
pl
B’Booky and his family/friends/associates were having hard times.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Crowley 1966
: 61
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
The associative plural: Associative plural marker identical to additive plural marker
Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun: Overlap
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