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Example 12-6
But my boy what been here, he been
in
it
for
they school last year.
[...]
[...]
he
he
been
cop
.
pst
in
prep
it
it
for
prep
they
det
.
poss
.
3pl
school
school
last
last
year.
year
[But my son who was here,] he participated in it (Junkanoo, i.e. the Bahamian form of carnival) for their school last year.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
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