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Example 12-63
Them days, when I was small, we want work. In these day - them days, these - they - they don't want work.
Them
dem
days
day.
pl
[...]
[...]
we
1pl
.
sbj
want
want
work.
work
In
in
these
dem
day,
day[
pl
]
them
dem
days,
day.
pl
these,
dem
they,
3pl
.
sbj
they
3pl
.
sbj
don't
neg
want
want
work.
work
In those days, [when I was small,] we wanted to work. These days, today [...] no one wants to work.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Co-occurrence of demonstrative and definite article: No co-occurrence
‘Want’ complement subjects: The complement subject is left implicit
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