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Example 12-9
January just make him thirteen.
January what gone
make him thirteen.
[...]
[...]
January
January
what
rel
gone
go\
pfv
make
make[
pfv
]
him
him
thirteen.
thirteen
[He just turned thirteen in January.] He turned thirteen last January (= the January that just passed).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Order of relative clause and noun: Relative clause follows noun
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