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Example 12-86
He back - your back on one side -
he own
was all over.
[...]
[...]
he
3sg
.
m
own
own
was
3sg
.
cop
.
pst
all
all
over.
over
His back [[got bitten by mosquitoes] - your back on one side,] his was [covered with bites] all over.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Independent pronominal possessors: Special pronoun form
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