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Example 12-98
He - he work - uh-uh, he work out town - he work - uh - he say they building one church somewhere out town.
[...]
[...]
they
they
build-ing
build-
prog
one
a
church
church
[...].
[...]
[...] they’re building a church [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Position of tense, aspect, and mood markers in relation to the verb: Immediately preceding the verb
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