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Example 13-178
Aint you know say comin back rebel time?
Aint
neg
.
aux
you
2sg
.
sbj
know
know
say
comp
comin
coming
back
back
rebel
slavery
time?
time
Don’t you know that slavery is coming back?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Turner [1949] 2002
: 264
Language:
Gullah
by
Thomas B. Klein
cite
Datapoints:
Negative morpheme types: Negative auxiliary verb
Polar questions: Interrogative word order
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