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Example 12-87
They used to play the truant and - now they grow up and become good boys - work in hotels, yeah.
[...]
[...]
they
3pl
.
sbj
grow
grow[
pfv
]
up
up
and
and
become
become[
pfv
]
good
adj
boys
boy.
pl
[...]
[...]
[They used to play the truant, and then] they grew up and became good boys [and now] [work in hotels, yeah].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Gender agreement of adnominal adjectives: No adjective agrees with the noun
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