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Example 12-7
They coming through
this
window here, you know, let me close.
They
they
coming
come.
prog
through
through
this
dem
window
window
here
here
[...].
[...]
They (i.e. the mosquitoes) are coming [in] through this window here [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Order of demonstrative and noun: Demonstrative word precedes noun
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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